For Butler, settled resentment has an important moral end in drawing men together to pursue justice, in making them fear engendering resentment in mankind due to their actions, and to extirpate moral wickedness: it is "one of the common bonds by which society is held together, a fellow feeling, which each individual has in behalf of the whole species, as well as oneself".
Public order was maintained mainly through fear engendered by the secret police.
Dodd-Frank, Mr. Kaiser writes, was an anomaly: "An accomplishment produced by a catastrophe and by the fear engendered by that catastrophe".
A new international environment, born of the revulsion, shock or just plain fear engendered by attacks on the United States, has made it possible.
"The only feeding frenzy is by the media," he said, alluding to headlines testifying to the fascination and fear engendered by shark attacks.
Toss in the steep decline in the value of people's retirement accounts and the sense of fear engendered by the near-meltdown of the global financial system, and it's hardly shocking that consumers are cautious.
A month after Sept. 11, a week into war, the fear engendered by Mr. bin Laden and his troops takes forms both obvious (Cipro now rivals Viagra in sales on the Internet) and not.
Fuelled by the hate and fear engendered by images of dismembered children or women suffering from the effects of chemical weapons, disaffected youth from around the world rushed to Syria, fuelling an ever more violent race to the bottom.
But it seems more likely that it occurred because the fear engendered by the bursting of the housing bubble and the turmoil in financial markets created a massive liquidity crisis — investors simply wanted (and want) to have their money in cash or government bonds, rather than to lend it.
The fear, engendered in recent decades, is that the two-week Games tend to encourage host cities and nations to spend promiscuously on ambitious new sports venues that struggle to find fulfilling and profitable new uses when athletes, crowds and media circuses disperse.
But it seems more likely that it occurred because the fear engendered by the bursting of the housing bubble and the turmoil in financial markets created a massive liquidity crisis investors simply wanted (and want) to have their money in cash or government bonds, rather than to lend it.
