One criminal justice official who spoke on the condition of anonymity, for fear of influencing the direction of future talks, said that while he was fairly confident a couple of months ago that the drug laws would be amended this year, his confidence waned in the last few weeks.
When teams spin discussion cycles arguing if they should include a default or not for fear of influencing the user too much, they are forgetting the counterfactual.
Sectarian tension and fear of foreign influence have been growing, long before the Egyptian upheaval.
A fear of the influence of revolutionary France dominated the Swedish government during the last decade of the 18th century and the first of the 19th.
It is intrinsic to Britain's island identity, in which an expansive view of the world is matched by a sometimes neuralgic fear of foreign influence.
By Lynn Caraganis The New Yorker, December 26 , 1983P. 31 Parody on United States foreign policy and our fear of the influence of the Soviet Union on small countries, inspired by the recent U.S. invasion of Grenada.
Those comments will sting among Cuban-Americans in South Florida, but among many of the Panhandle voters that Colonel Day has been enlisted to attract, fear of Hispanic influence is not uncommon.
Despite its understandable preoccupation with the future of neighbouring Afghanistan and the fear of losing influence there to India, Mr Qureshi insisted Islamabad had "taken no sides" in the Afghan presidential election.
The panic has become a metaphor for persecution and paranoia, notably in The Crucible, Arthur Miller's 1953 play, which used the trials as an allegory for the fear of Communist influence that infected US government in the Fifties.
