Sentence examples for it was afraid from inspiring English sources

BOEING decided a few years ago to build its 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina, the Wall Street Journal opines, because it was afraid its union in Washington was too strong.

Accounting firm Andersen, with its legal department as the "driving force," destroyed records in order to impede a federal probe into client Enron last fall because it was afraid it could lose its audit license, prosecutors said in their closing arguments.

(A few months before, Mr. Hazare had advocated a referendum to reach out directly to Indians and ask them whether they wanted his version of an anti-corruption institution, also known as Jan Lokpal. He asked the government why it was afraid of a direct vote of its people).

But its British publisher, Secker & Warburg, canceled publication, saying it was afraid of being sued.

"It was afraid to face reality".

The music industry, she notes, missed out because it was afraid to embrace technology.

It is afraid to let loose.

I can't think what it's afraid of.

"It is afraid of everything, afraid to do anything.

"I called it being afraid of my desk.

It's afraid the deal will become a slippery slope".