Sentence examples for an idle fear from inspiring English sources
It's not an idle fear; the Ugandan military has a history of killing the group's members, including children.
Though the non-gene part of the genome is often dismissed as mere "junk DNA", they felt (correctly) that at least some of it must be biologically important, so disentangling the whole lot was therefore necessary.That turned out to be an idle fear.
This is not an idle fear.
And that's not an idle concern.
It is far from an idle concern.
While the government would not arrest them until more than a decade later, it was no idle fear: The trader who federal prosecutors say turned the lawyer's tips into $32 million in illicit profits had been accused of insider trading by a brokerage firm that year.
This is no idle fear, Mr. Gingrich warns in his book: "The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did".
If no help is forthcoming, there is every chance that the ensuing economic chaos, in the wake of a likely rouble crash, will not only bring down the current government but may even bring down Russia's rough-and-ready democracy.This is no idle fear (see article).
Stranger— Beneath this Cone in unconscrated Ground A Friend to the Liberties of mankind Directed his Body to be Inhum'd May the Example Contribute to Emancipate thy mind From the Idle Fears of Superstition And the wicked arts of Priesthood.
Moscow's fear of being dragged into a wider war is not an idle one.
