"It's much more about understanding what people face in their everyday lives: knowing their fears, knowing their anger, and trying to show them, in a way, that they can and we together can fix, or hopefully make baby steps in fixing these problems that seem intractable, entrenched and impossible to overcome".
For example, an emergency department public health nurse noted that healthcare workers already operate daily under high-risk conditions despite their fears, knowing that standards of protection are inadequate.
Educate yourself about the topic of their fears: Knowing the facts will only help to calm them.
Even so, when countries hold a veto, they can sit out negotiations; when, on the other hand, they know they could theoretically be outvoted, they enter the room in a state of fear, knowing they could end up isolated.
I personally put a secondary value on knowing the source(s) — I actually fear knowing, in case it is one or more people whom I respect".
The doctors try to suppress their cynicism and understand the fear, knowing that in most cases, they will not even bother to test for flu.
David Escamilla, the Travis County attorney and president-elect of the Texas District and County Attorneys Association, said that in prosecutorial offices across the state, there is, "to a lesser degree, a fear — knowing this could be us".
When laws can be approved by majority vote, governments enter negotiations in a state of fear, knowing that doubters can easily end up isolated; a knowledge that pushes everybody towards compromise, gives the commission more power and promotes "more Europe".
Still, the migrants must stay hidden and they live in fear, knowing that they are in grave danger of being returned during the periodic sweeps China undertakes to discourage the migration and to show camaraderie with its neighbor.
Leonovich lost her job in a bank and her children have grown up in fear, knowing never to answer a knock at the door in case it is the authorities.
I think this was the cause of so many night terrors, of waking in the dark, or waiting to go to sleep and being frozen with fear, knowing if I opened my eyes something was hovering above the bed.
