Personal credit is a new business in China, and the discipline imposed by the fear of acquiring a bad credit history is sorely lacking.
Like the Garcias, I watched it all in awe and with satisfaction that I had made my own tiny push against the limit imposed by my fears.
No one wanted to be out on the streets after a midday curfew imposed by Ouattara for fear of being taken for a pro-Gbagbo fighter.
He contrasts what he calls "Pax Americana" ("a universal peace imposed by American arms; fear's empire founded in right's good name, because it matters not if they hate us as long as they fear us") with what he calls "lex humana" ("universal law rooted in human commonality").
Yet leaving Chechnya as a place ruled by fear, whether imposed by the army or local bullies, is not a solution either.Can anything better be done to provide Chechnya with legitimate governors?
After Iraq, our country must never again succumb to the fear imposed by a terrorist attack, or the dream of nation building, and engage in urban and counterinsurgency warfare.
What Hume and the other Scottish savants wanted was a society that was not ruled by fear or by superstition imposed by authority; a society that was burgeoning, progressive, affluent, and tolerant.
There is less hope for stronger sanctions, like a trade embargo of the sort already imposed by the United States, because of fears that competitors will rush in to capitalize on the vacuum.
The flying machines which are the weapon of choice for the next America's Cup, one of the sporting world's more quirky events, are throwing up a mass of problems for sailors learning to control the new beasts and, compounded by rules imposed by the American defender, raising fears for the safety of the people racing them.
The no-fly zone imposed by the UN has removed the fear of the colonel's attacks from the air.
