Sentence examples for an old fear from inspiring English sources
It is an old fear, and one that, in this age of surveillance, has gained ground.
It can be an old fear that needs a new name or a new fear that needs a name.
It is an old fear, which seemed to dig into the English soul at the time of the Renaissance.
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Three days after a landmark election meant to bring peace here in West Africa's former economic leader, an old fear hung over this tattered ex-boomtown: a president who refuses to give up power.
It's an old fear, widely held since the time of Ned Ludd, who destroyed two mechanical knitting machines in 19th-century England and introduced the Luddite movement, humankind's first organized protest against technological change.
Many protesters said the cartoons, first published in a newspaper in Denmark, had stirred up an old fear, that Muslims in the West remain strangers to their neighbors, even generations after arriving here.
But the anxiety over high-achieving Asian-Americans also evoked an older fear that the white majority was under threat.
This story was already ancient when it was adapted for the biblical text — which is to say, it records a very old fear.
Like all old fears, it has the uncanny feel of a vivid memory.
For a moment, I felt a shiver of the old fear.
It's a casual joke, an ironic expression of the old fear that if women were given power over men, they'd subjugate them, castrate them, humiliate them.
