Some of us fear harsh judgment and outright rejection by members of our families and congregations.
Contrary to expectations from experts, who feared the harsh tone by Trump would heighten already existing tensions, Kim Jong Un let April pass without a sixth nuclear test.
Wilson initially favoured relatively lenient treatment of Germany – he feared too harsh conditions could foment the rise of extremism, and wanted Germany to be left sufficient capital to pay for imports.
That may be because they feared even harsher limits, or because they are keeping their powder dry for other fights.
The Swedish media generally obey such strictures, partly because they fear that harsh laws would otherwise be brought in.
Though President Bush last week said that "Mr. Arafat has failed as a leader," his administration opposes exiling or killing Mr. Arafat, fearing a harsh backlash.
On April 16, 2003, the Pentagon issued a memorandum to the U.S. Southern Command, approving twenty-four of them for use at Guantánamo, including isolation and what it called "fear up harsh," which meant "significantly increasing the fear level in a detainee".
He claims to have felt remorse over Hawker's death, but was too scared to give himself up, fearing a harsh sentence in light of the widespread media coverage her murder had received.
In some cases, Yoo's condition of "specific intent" to commit acts of torture is clear from declassified interrogation logs, which reveal systematic and prolonged efforts to induce psychological states of debility, dependence and dread, euphemistically referred to as "ego down", "futility" and "fear up harsh".
When Citi's financial problems got so serious that other banks wouldn't lend to it and it had to be rescued, Paulson and his colleagues at the Fed feared that imposing harsh terms — eminently justified on moral-hazard grounds — would encourage short-sellers on Wall Street to attack the stocks of other big banks.
