For women, the virtues of lajja-baya (shame-fear), characterised by shyness, naivety, docility, helplessness and chastity, and virginity at marriage are considered to be extremely important, and women's failure to conform to these ideals often results in public ridicule [ 7].
Drugs arrived and found an unhappy home … That was the environment of hopelessness and fear which characterised the Thatcher era for what had been the working classes.
The verbal collocates in the corpora data offer a more consistent pattern regarding power, showing that whereas fear is characterised by power, dominance and control, strach is associated with relatively more weakness, submissiveness and passivity.
These include fear appeal approaches, characterised by descriptions of the negative consequences of health risks or health behaviour.
(C) Participants characterised women by fear: fear of their partner, fear of the consequences of disclosing and fear of the unknown, that is, what happens to them, to their children, and their partner if services 'find out'.
Turnbull characterised fears for LGBTI people's wellbeing as amounting to a lack of trust in the Australian people's ability to have a civil debate.
The 'Fearful' women were characterised by high levels of fear and concerns regarding safety.
George Weinberg, the psychologist who coined the term, wrote that homophobia is often characterised by religious fear, by fear of reducing the status of the home and family and by fear of contagion.
There was simply no outlet in Scotland for the fear and loathing that characterised the EU debate in England.
What this communicates to visitors about the nature of 21st-century British government is that it has become characterised by fear, loathing and suspicion.
By contrast the response of the British media has been characterised by fear rather than compassion, but there are plenty of ways that individuals can offer support.
