Sentence examples for measures afraid of from inspiring English sources

In the past, candidates for president have been wary of explicitly calling for tougher fuel conservation measures, afraid of drawing the ire of auto-worker unions and inviting criticism that such measures would raise the cost of automobiles and cost American jobs.

Then he added, for good measure, "I'm afraid of heights".

He said the inquiry would consider granting "protected measures" to whistleblowers who were afraid of criticising their employer or speaking truthfully about press ethics.

Paradoxically, it is because of Brexit that festival organisers are taking the measures in the first place, afraid of an influx of "lads with their shirts off" who can no longer afford to decamp to the Dalmatian coast for their fix this summer.

I think I was afraid of not measuring up to that.

The first is that, unlike America, he distinguishes between truly dangerous militants, such as members of al-Qaeda, and those that he thinks he can control.The second explanation for General Musharraf's half-measures is that he is afraid of the extremist groups.

We had been so afraid of not measuring up to the standards they had set that we had made it our goal to always keep improving our ideas and methods.

But similarly afraid of heights, he measures them from the ground with a 45-cent device he fashions out of a protractor, string, a thumbtack and a pencil.

Her plans for London's public spaces include hit squads in each borough to restore derelict buildings and, not afraid of more radical measures, she is calling for English Heritage to lift the listed restrictions on the demolition of Battersea Power Station so that the 38-acre site can be redeveloped.

Being conscious of the wickedness of the measures they are pursuing, they are afraid of everything that may become a controul on them. 55). 55

Junior staff tend to be afraid of strict supervisory measures that they refer to as "inspection" and try to resist them, while the supervisors rely on their own judgments about how supervision should be conducted.