Sentence examples for fear of doing something from inspiring English sources

"State Department functionaries are oftentimes gripped by a fear of doing something wrong," the aide said.

Fear of doing something badly is a terrible excuse for not doing it at all.

"We've established a standard and have an intense fear of doing something poorly," Hornbacher told me.

They told her of the pervasive fear of doing something that could bring forth a lynch mob.

Failure to take an action that would have helped is more difficult to quantify and is less frequently addressed in morbidity and mortality conferences, but failure to take action is becoming more prevalent because of doctors' fear of doing something potentially harmful.

Fear of doing something wrong or other inhibitions still prevent many people from starting chest compression.

So they continued with the same rhetoric and actions as before - out of fear and resistance of doing something new.

This not only highlights the authority and power of nurses in their ART treatment, but also the fear patients have of doing something wrong and being reprimanded and how they carefully navigate their interactions with the nurses.

In Apple, they likely see a very viable alternative that should ease fears of Amazon doing something like cutting out the middle man (the publishers) and publishing books itself for the Kindle.

This is partly because it's difficult to derive data that specific from census reports, but also because as former Muslim Shahid Abbas* tells me over Skype—"Many young people won't define themselves as agnostic or atheist, usually out of fear they're doing something morally wrong".

Many people are afraid of providing first aid because they fear doing something wrong [ 38].