Sentence examples for afraid of the idea from inspiring English sources

I like someone who's not afraid of the idea of new businesses.

"Some of the elderly may never have seen a dentist before, and they are deathly afraid of the idea," he said.

"And I'm a little afraid of the idea of kids at the moment, even though I'm sure at some point I'll have them".

Doctorow wrote that Swartz may have been afraid of the idea of imprisonment but that he had also suffered with bouts of depression.

Afterwards, I realized that I had been more afraid of the idea of confronting a cobra than the live cobra outside the bathroom.

Too afraid of the idea of mortality.

Perhaps because, as Khalid el-Haj, a retired school administrator in Rufaa, who first met Taha in the early sixties, told me, "They are afraid of the ideas, not the numbers.

That said, I think that for people who are afraid of the whole idea that they'd actually have to be exposing something about themselves, that their sense of their identity is so privately held, it's not going to be a very good fit.

Adults may be afraid of this idea, but children, apparently, are not.

"There is still going to be conflict, especially since Spencer attracts a lot of white supremacists and there are so many minorities on campus who feel afraid because of the ideas he spreads," Hernandez said.

Zenawi has muzzled and intimidated nearly all of his critics and shuttered newspapers in Ethiopia, jammed the Voice of America and the independent Ethiopian Satellite Television Service and enacted repressive press and civil society laws because he is afraid of ideas - ideas about freedom, democracy, human rights, accountability, transparency, the rule of law and so on.