Sentence examples for kept in fear of from inspiring English sources

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"A bad one ought to be kept in fear of them".

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Nowadays, the fear is promulgated by a flood of dystopian Hollywood movies and negative news that keeps us in fear of the future.

They kept the crew in fear of their lives for six days, then left with all that they could carry.

He's obsessed with the law, the moment where "reality and the law [collide] in a way that exposes the contradictions of the system we live in… where masses of people are kept in check by fear of the police and the threat of incarceration or execution, rather than by a shared sense of possibility".

Man's plight would, indeed, be sad if he had to be kept in order through fear of punishment and hope of rewards after death.

The lawyer for Mr. al-'Owhali, 24, said that his client, who was arrested, imprisoned and interrogated in Nairobi after the attack on Aug. 7, 1998, had been "kept in terrible conditions, in fear of his life from jailers, with jailers who had to hate him".

She says she has to make sure that everything is kept clean and lives in fear of her patients escaping and roaming her building.

The people must be kept in a state of fear by the threat of punishment; however, over time the punishments needed to keep them in line will tend to become more and more severe, until further threats lose their force.

Thus everyone is kept in a state of fear.

Kim told the Guardian she and other workers were abused regularly: "They said, 'You fucking idiot', 'You whore,' 'You are stupid'" She says restaurant staff were kept in a climate of fear.

I was surrounded by women in their 20s who desperately tried to keep slim and trim, living in fear of food altogether.

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