It is tempting for us Israelis to cling to such fears, to let them counsel and guide us, to feel their familiar, reassuring ring.
It is not clear whether he, or his party, is up to the job; for alarmingly little is known even by the voters about the people who have taken power in the world's second-biggest economy.In opposition the DPJ tapped into the powerful, rather Nordic, vision of their society that many Japanese people cling to and fear they are losing.
The Taliban thrive on the fear of outsiders: they invoke a hostile world in the hope that people will cling to them for fear of something worse.
Clients may want to believe that they made the right choice of adviser in the first place, or will "cling to nurse, for fear of finding something worse".
But there's an obstacle in the tangled, encrusted business models that the Comcasts, CBSs, and Disneys cling to out of fear that Apple will wrest control of their content, that they'll be disintermediated a la iTunes or the iPhone/iPad App Store.
The more the Syrian opposition remains fractured, the stronger Assad will be, the more some Syrians will cling to him out of fear of chaos and the more he will get away with Hama Rules.
They cling to that heritage and fear innovation threatens it.
We cling to outworn prejudice and fear those who are unfamiliar.
He acknowledged why a people surrounded by outsiders for centuries would cling to their culture and fear black majority rule.
And he should encourage economic and political reform in the Gulf and Egypt, which cling to a moribund "stability" for fear that change will run amok.
"How about the Burberry?" she said, referring to an ivory silk sheath hanging from a rack ten feet away — a piece I feared might cling to me like Saran wrap.
