"They are afraid of the state falling apart," he said.
Unlike so many other Tories of various traditions in the past 40 years, she is not afraid of the state's economic or social role.
As the Libyan author Hisham Matar wrote last week, "Under Gaddafi we were afraid of the state; now its weakness imperils all we have achieved.
"I am not afraid of the state moving into Opel," Mr. Scholz said in an interview with the mass-circulation newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
The New York State Rifle and Pistol Association said New York gun owners "should be ashamed and afraid of our state," and the National Rifle Association said, "These gun-control schemes have failed in the past and will have no impact on public safety and crime".
"We will go anywhere we must to awaken a sleepy Belgrade," said Branko Ilic, an Otpor activist, who urged students to raise their fists -- the Otpor symbol -- to show that "you are not afraid of the state of emergency" and will gather again at the university on Monday.
"We have become such a democratic country in these presidential elections that I'm afraid other heads of state will shy away from me, the strong democrat," Mr. Lukashenko told reporters this month.
Mr. McCullough said by phone from his home in Massachusetts that in Philadelphia, "all the small states were afraid of the large states; they feared they would take the ball and run with it".
If it's because of money problems, don't be afraid to state that it is.
Libyans used to be afraid of a brutal state; now they are afraid of the absence of the state.
