We feared the worst.

Doctors were afraid to remove the bullet.

They feared for the safety of the trucks and the bulldozers.

Even some in the Vatican feared this outcome.

We feared that the voting would take place without the presence of our poll watchers.

Giving birth was so risky that they feared for their lives.

From the beginning, senior Reagan era officials were wary of pursuing a unilateral response.

Canada s depreciated currency made American goods more expensive in Canada By doing so, a feared explosion of U.S. imports did not take place.

GV Did journalists and activists fear for Nemtsov's life before the attack?

At the beginning of the Afghan campaign many military experts feared that the US would face a similar fate.

Indeed, China can probably avoid the financial meltdown widely feared in the summer.

Political parties and others who mobilized opposition to the EDC feared a remilitarized Germany and a threat to France s sovereignty.

The healthy borrowers worried that creditors would demand higher rates if the penalties for default softened.

Paddington publishers feared readers wouldn't relate to a talking bear, new letter reveals

The third moment came after the Berlin Wall fell, and it was feared that an enlarged Germany might destabilize Europe.

In Romania during February 2004, several relatives of Toma Petre feared that he had become a vampire.

Interethnic violence which many feared has largely been avoided, and the mass exodus of Serbs that some also predicted has not occurred.

Many of Rivero's old friends feared that talking to the poet would endanger them, and he appeared lonely.

The global response to the crisis may not have been stellar, but neither has it been the free for all that might have been feared.

The Fed and Treasury feared that the lesson being taught in the last half of 2007 and the first half of 2008 was that the US government guaranteed all the debt and transactions of every bank and bank like entity that was regarded as too big to fail.

Others, especially on the political right, worried that the latest monetary measures would fuel future inflation and encourage unbridled government spending.

The IMF and the US Treasury worried that any change would restart inflation, because there was little or no excess productive capacity.

Human rights activists feared that the presidential victory of former general Otto Perez Molina would mean a step backwards in transitional justice in Guatemala.

Given Pauling's recent success in discovering the Alpha helix, they feared that Pauling might also be the first to determine the structure of DNA.

For this reason, closed and closing societies have always feared sexual liberationists, and have sought to link political dissidence with sexual anarchy.

Canada s depreciated currency made American goods more expensive in Canada By doing so, a feared explosion of U.S. imports did not take place.

Analysts have been wary of the possible closure of both of the Portland smelter in Victoria and also the Tomago plant near Newcastle due to the poor economics of the industry.

Opponents feared the development plan would fail to protect residents and the environment, and argued that the policy making process surrounding the development was undemocratic.

In particular, voters were afraid that their jobs would be lost to hordes of Eastern immigrants, exemplified in the image widely quoted at the time, of the low cost Polish plumber.

In this sense, Tocqueville s intellectual heirs include the neo Marxist theorists of the Frankfurt School, as well as Hannah Arendt, all of whom feared above all the disintegration of reason in modern societies.

The French rejected the European Union constitution, primarily or so it appears because further European integration, it is feared, must bring in its wake the huge costs and disruptions of neo liberalism.

While the NPT is not entirely responsible for the absence of dozens of nuclear armed states that many people once feared would emerge, it generated a standard of behavior that continues to guide most countries. Still, the accord never fulfilled its disarmament objective.

While the NPT is not entirely responsible for the absence of dozens of nuclear armed states that many people once feared would emerge, it generated a standard of behavior that continues to guide most countries.

Is this just because we have been maneuvered into fearing someone worse, a sabre rattling silovik (past or present member of the security services), like former Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov?

The Dow Jones industrial average dropped as much as 16 below its record high in May as investors feared a slowing Chinese economy would drag down global growth.

Bank runs occur when people, worried that their deposits will not be honored, hastily withdraw their money, thereby creating the very bankruptcy that they feared.

Opponents fear that the 614 hectare project, of which less than 96 hectares or 16 percent is allocated for residential purposes, will destroy Hong Kong's remaining farming communities.

They probably feared that Iran s participation in the talks would enable Iranian leaders to link efforts to end the Syrian crisis to negotiations over Iran s nuclear program, enhancing their ability to resist international demands that the program be terminated.

Nor does religion play a discernible role while Roman Catholics used to fear independence as being liable to result in Protestant hegemony, today Catholics and Protestants are roughly equal in their support of Scotland s institutions.

The NPT has been the single most crucial factor in limiting the world s nuclear armed states to the current nine, rather than the 20 30 widely feared a generation ago.

The same may also be true if narrow winners adopt a radical agenda, as some think George W. Bush has done in America and many feared Andrés Manuel Lopéz Obrador would do in Mexico.

The scale of these costs is unknown, but the share prices of the banks that could be affected (Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland in particular) rose when the report was published, suggesting that they are not as high as had been feared.