"There was real apprehension about it.
The profits are so high (estimated at more than $110 billion last year nationally, double the profits of the Fortune 500 companies), the demand so great and the perceived and actual risk of apprehension so minimal, that law enforcement cannot solve the drug crisis.
Aside from the actual feelings of dread and apprehension, the emotional and cognitive symptoms include irritability, worry, poor concentration, and restlessness.
I spoke directly to arts practitioners located within companies across the sector for background for this article; although reaction was one of "nervousness, apprehension, concern and actual fear", not one agreed to speak on the record.
"By the 1990s border enforcement had become a self-sustaining cycle in which rising apprehensions provided proof of the ongoing 'illegal invasion' to justify more resources allocated to border enforcement, which produced more apprehensions, even though the actual number of undocumented migrants seeking entry was not increasing," Massey said.
A panic attack is a sudden attack of extreme terror, fear or apprehension, even though there's no actual danger present.
Additionally, patients' perception of or apprehension of side effects, as opposed to the actual presence of side effects may contribute more to nonadherence (Scott and Pope 2002).
John Freeman, the editor of Granta magazine who oversaw a special edition dedicated to sex earlier this year, says that although contemporary fiction abounds with eloquent discussions "around" and "about" sex, there is a level of apprehension among some writers who find themselves searching for a fitting vocabulary to describe its actual mechanics.
To quote the Prologue again, "while our actual knowledge is incommensurable with the greatest knowledge, something humanly unattainable, the unsure falling away of our weak apprehension from the purity of truth makes our assertions of what is true conjecture".
Apprehension disappeared.
