Sentence examples for frightened about being from inspiring English sources

The Mexicans are so frightened about being singled out that they do not even tell one another their real names.

Germany and Austria, frightened about being flooded with immigrants, recently persuaded other member countries to insist on a "transition period" of up to seven years before Central European workers would receive an automatic right to live and work anywhere in the European Union.

It was during a visit to the Long Island Children's Museum in Garden City last year that Ms. Martin realized that the same sort of interactive exhibits could provide a fun and relaxed environment for children who are sick and frightened about being in a hospital.

Min, who is pregnant, is frightened about being sent home where her trafficker might find her.

She pointed to statistics showing that by midyear, the number of stops had declined by 50 percent, arguing that this suggested that officers were frightened about being punished.

Her lawyer, Dawn M. Cardi, argued that the attack was not premeditated, and that Ms. Siddiqui was trying to escape from custody because she was "petrified and frightened about being tortured, about being sent to Guantánamo".

It seems that those who are the most frightened about change are those that have been least exposed to it.

Dame Margaret Hodge, MP for Barking, described how she had seen a battered suitcase with her uncle's initials on it when she visited Auschwitz and how she had "never felt as nervous and frightened as I do today" about being Jewish.

"To varying degrees [the parents] were upset, devastated and frightened about what they were imagining might be happening," Hooper said.

Lots of them stopped to talk about how frightened they were about the cuts and for their own homes and jobs.

He is, he says, "frightened about the two party system and frightened about where we are in American politics". The measure of our success as a nation, he says, has long been tied to the answer to one question: Have we lost our ability to govern ourselves?