Terrorism works only insofar as it terrorizes – if it instils a fear that changes our behaviors, limits our ability to live normally and chips away at our most valued institutions.
That crisis alone robbed Germans of their savings and instilled a fear of inflation that was passed down from generation to generation and remains deeply entrenched to this day.
Society has instilled a fear in us that if our boy doesn't play sports, than he is uninvolved.
His constant beatings did not improve my grades in mathematics, but made me hate the subject and instilled a fear of him that I failed to shake off for the rest of my primary school years.
My mother instilled a fear in me at a very young age that I would struggle in life if I chose any path outside business, medicine or law.
At the end of the day, this article is merely a perpetuation of archaic fear tactics by a writer with no background in criminal psychology, who has, for the moment, instilled in me a fear that other people could believe in such nonsense.
When Truman was a boy, his character on the show was killed off to instil a fear of water in his son that would prevent Truman from leaving the set; however, he sneaks back onto the set when Truman is an adult.
I proposed that someone should attempt a citizens' arrest, in the hope of instilling a fear of punishment among those who plan illegal wars.
A fear of foreign enemy instilled by communist regimes is replaced by instilling a fear of violent nationalism, financial markets, rating agencies and economic threats today.
It instilled the fear that my "artistic" self-regard, my masochistic inhabitation of my own thoughts, is destructively bereft of meaning, that it is all a cliché.
But in recent days, activists have spoken of a broader campaign of intimidation, with arbitrary detentions aimed at instilling a sense of fear that the uprising had seemed to break.
