Paramount among these expectations may be an assumption that another HIV-positive person will share the burden of stigma, will not reject one based on fears of disease, and will likely be a reliable source of continued support.
Far too many economies are littered with the detritus of daft energy policies, based on fears about supply.
But although climate rhetoric has been based on fears of high sensitivity, climate policy has not been.
Long-standing medical caution, based on fears of addiction, had to be overcome if pharmaceutical companies were to boost sales.
A Televisa spokesman says it would be unjust to block the deal based on fears of a crime that has not taken place.
Some of the opposition to the PLS (or earlier to any kind of electronic publishing) was based on fears that the peer review system might collapse.
Stein's recount effort, backed by a coalition of academics and activists, is based on fears that election machinery may have been hacked, although no evidence has yet been presented.
The Left-Greens' reluctance to join the union is based on fears, widely shared in Iceland, that the country would lose control of its exclusive fishing waters off its coasts and of its other natural resources.
Her disapproval is based on fears that introduction of the fees would lead to a two-tier system where "the rich would pay extra fees and go to the classy, elitist universities".
Some experts at the meeting argued that any efforts to restrict vaccination, based on fears of a shortage, inevitably confuse the public, discourage people from being immunized and result in vaccine going to waste.
The Tories today accused Labour of running an election campaign based on "fears and smears" after Gordon Brown appeared to acknowledge that claims a Conservative government would cut benefits for the elderly had overstepped the mark.
