Sentence examples for a frightened population from inspiring English sources
"A frightened population is obedient".
"What we have now is a frightened population.
And a bleak place it was, too, with a fearful ruling class running a frightened population in an atmosphere of poverty-stricken uniformity and terrified stasis — a lot more like the actual medieval condition than like the Victorian fantasy.
An internationally brokered peace deal in 1997 led to the travesty of a frightened population's electing Mr. Taylor president for fear of what would happen if he did not get his way.
Regardless of how the remarks came about, they fully exemplify the national security policy of the old crowd: the guiding theory that a frightened population will and should acquiesce to the slow dissolution of civil liberties in the face of ambiguous threats from faceless (and mostly brown-skinned) villains.
The nightmare scenario for many Middle East countries is a drawn-out war in which a defiant Mr. Hussein resists the American onslaught from a bastion in Baghdad as Al Jazeera broadcasts reports about a hungry and frightened population.
"They want a frightened, docile population that's easily manipulated – and the arts are about thinking for yourself.
On December 17, UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein warned that "a frightened, uninformed population, fed a diet of hate speech and paranoia, is one that may be recruited to the path of violence by either side".
While the vast majority of the Bush administration's security policies produced nothing more than a frightened U.S. population convinced that Saddam Hussein had actually been behind 9/11 and that Democrats hated the troops and were going to get us all killed, their scare tactics might have actually cut Al Qaeda off at the knees.
Yet there was no end of attempts to cheer the trapped and frightened population.
The key response to such fear is not to be stupid or brave, but to keep travelling, to go to places where people gather, to understand that the notion of the public, the social, is being worn down by frightened populations who must merely sit inside, terrified.
