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That has frightened off foreign companies.

This experience has frightened off many cities since.

Predicted price rises for fuel will coincide with strong pressure for a devaluation of the currency, a toxic mix that has frightened off previous governments.

By manipulating electoral districts, starving opposition constituencies of resources and relentlessly attacking and suing opponents, the party has frightened off most potential opposition candidates.

The money comes from donations, the sale of burial plots, rent from property, and its newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun, whose circulation is 5.5m.But, like many organisations that have grown fat and lost sight of their original purpose, the Soka Gakkai protects its interests with a ruthlessness that has frightened off critics and cowed the Japanese mainstream media into silence.

But last year's military-sponsored change of government has frightened off all but the most intrepid international travellers.

Yet the noise may have frightened off the assailants.

But replacing grants with loans too mean to cover living expenses seems to have frightened off some students.

After Dubya and Dick Cheney have frightened off the first group of attackers, they think they are safe, and start to unwind with some Tex-Mex food and beer.

Yet sporadic terror attacks on Western targets, as well as on Yemeni security forces, have frightened off sorely needed foreign investment.Mr Saleh has played a delicate game with the Islamist radicals.

Of course it wasn't true, but who was I to deny that he was helping me?" Reid believes that the pseudo-Hughes connection may have frightened off challengers, and both O'Callaghan and Reid, running separately, won.