Sentence examples for fear almost from inspiring English sources

The fear was that she would use its huge mandate for partisan advantage.The hope has been largely dashed, the fear almost fully borne out (see Banyan).

Aside from the psychological impact of being declared bankrupt, there is also the fear – almost certainly justified – that a bankruptcy judge will allow management to tamper with its pension obligations to them.

The new "Manchurian Candidate," in other words, plays by the same nasty rules as the administration it attacks, stoking fear for partisan advantage by making the demagogues of fear almost as scary as the terrorists themselves.

Mr. Romney and Mr. Santorum aren't Mr. Reagan or Mr. Ford, leading Republicans fear; almost no one gives Ron Paul or Newt Gingrich any serious shot at the nomination, though they could be in a position to cut deals by late August, when Republicans reach the convention in Tampa, Florida.

A genius who feels "fear, almost hatred, in the presence of a common mind", Oppenheimer is torn between lust for scientific achievement and horror at prospective success.Mr Thackara's chilling descriptions of the first A-bomb test at Trinity, the bombing of Hiroshima and the tests of the hydrogen bomb the development of which Oppenheimer fiercely opposed are terrific.

The dazzling spectacle of Beijing '08 turned this fear almost pathological  —  there were some people who displayed it by their sneering dismissal of the '08 opening ceremony as the work of a dictatorship that can whip people into efficiency through terror alone (as someone who grew up in a dictatorship that was surrounded by shambles, I could only laugh).

The move was feared almost as much as the first migration, known as the Middle Passage.

An african animal that has been loathed and feared almost as much as the hyena, and that was automatically shot on sight, is the wild dog.

In the end, however, Johnson's gamble that he could trust the families proved to be right, in large part because the mission statement set forth a program for the memorial that made the kitsch that Spreiregen feared almost impossible.

There was always a beat before the prime minister answered, as he tried to work out where the trap might be.Cormack took his arm and led him across the room to a duo from the country's second-biggest tabloid a mid-market monster that the politicians feared almost as much as the Post plus two wire reporters who had perceptively joined them.

For a moment she thought it could be one of her sons, but she realised as the child was swept past that she was mistaken: "I stared into this unknown landscape, still wondering if I was dreaming, but fearing, almost knowing, I was not".