But NBC decided to limit what people could see online, especially live streams, in favor of its TV coverage because it feared cannibalizing its TV audience.
The group responded Thursday in an extraordinarily defensive statement that it had declined to join the protests only because it feared its presence could provoke more violence, not because of a political calculus.
Iran later said that it had kept the construction secret until recently because it feared that its known nuclear plants could be bombed.
The government itself has never requested a compulsory license, even though it can under the law, because it feared retaliation from its Western trading partners, which threatened sanctions when the idea was debated a few years ago.
"If they shoot one or shoot two, well how many do they want to kill?" says Oko. Shell could have reactivated the flow station, but waited nine months because it feared reprisals to its workers.
The United States extended its involvement in the Vietnam War because it feared that losing that war would damage its military credibility and thus embolden the Soviet Union and its allies.
While the case dragged on, Bangkok decided it could not use its expensive new equipment because it feared that putting the trucks into service would legitimize the purchase and possibly affect the outcome of investigations.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists that Iran, like Libya, halted its nuclear program in 2003 because it feared military action.
It was later in that decade when the company turned a deaf ear to what its scientists were saying, presumably because it feared heightened awareness about climate change could lead to government controls on carbon emissions.
With Spotify, the two made it into "advanced talks" about an acquisition in 2016, but Spotify walked away because it feared acquiring SoundCloud could negatively affect its IPO preparation, according to a TechCrunch source.
The city had rejected the test because it feared being sued by black firefighters over its "disparate impact".
