There's significant (though far from conclusive) economic and anecdotal evidence that hiring is inhibited by a fear of the inability to lay off permanent employees in cases of difficulty.
Patients who are expected to have a difficult airway may remain intubated longer than necessary, simply for fear of the inability to reintubate.
Ironically, for those who eventually became teenage parents, the medicalisation of contraceptives was more intricately linked with the fear of reproductive inability than it was for those who delayed child-bearing.
In what often became a frustrating cycle of increased unprotected sexual activity and fear of reproductive inability, even slight menstrual delays that ended in menstruation came to represent an anxiety-producing event signalling possible infertility.
I also wrote that throughout their career, Subversa and her fellow musicians – notably Lance D'Boyle and co-singer Richard Famous – rallied against what they called "the fear of freedom", the inability of everywoman to speak up for herself.
Violence and hatred, and the fear of our own inability to control them in ourselves, are a fundamental part of our birthright, along with altruism, creativity, tenderness, pity and love.
Lasch saw the echo of such qualities in "the fascination with fame and celebrity, the fear of competition, the inability to suspend disbelief, the shallowness and transitory quality of personal relations, the horror of death".
But I wore my disability, which included considerable astigmatism, with perverse pride, happily using it to explain a number of my most glaring personal failures, including a pathological fear of heights, an inability to remember what people looked like, and a tendency to drive in a way that made my passengers want to take the bus.
However, due to fear of losing assets, inability to arrange a co-signer, and lack of adequate collateral, many fishers are reluctant to obtain credit from government-sponsored programs and seek credit elsewhere.
