Later, when the war went badly and the Brissotins, anxious to wield executive power, acted equivocally in their relations with the king, the Jacobins turned on them.
I was secretly anxious to see how badly someone else would muck up my part.
The biggest challenge involved a publicly traded European affiliate that was stumbling badly, causing some investors to grow increasingly anxious.
Though most Arabians have a natural tendency to cooperate with humans, when treated badly, like any horse, they can become excessively nervous or anxious, but seldom become vicious unless seriously spoiled or subjected to extreme abuse.
His feud with Aleppo was never decided in his lifetime, for it is known from other sources that he returned, badly wounded, to his old residence at Kussara, anxious to appoint a successor who might continue the struggle.
(Only the more anxious volunteers who saw the scare TV reacted badly).
He dithered badly over ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, seemingly anxious to offend neither America nor Europe.
While many Cubans relish the incremental, unfolding changes, many are anxious they will lose subsidised food and goods and state jobs, however badly paid.
His sharp interview technique suffers badly, and some editor should tip him off that biting his nails and making anxious telephone calls do not constitute live action.
In computer terms, it's both a hardware problem (I'm wired badly) and a software problem (I run faulty logic programs that make me think anxious thoughts).
