Sentence examples for reasonably fear for from inspiring English sources

Indeed, you have a circumstance in which anyone would reasonably fear for his life.

However, McBride's family's lawyer, Gerald Thurswell, has questioned whether Wafer could reasonably fear for his life when an impaired, unarmed, average-sized woman was standing outside his locked door.

This latest sentence follows his objection to doing community service in West Jerusalem, where he reasonably feared for his safety.

The husband was unarmed, but the jury concluded that Ms. Simmons, based on her past abuse, reasonably feared for her life.

Under this strategy the battered woman chronicles her abuse in intimate and graphic detail with the aim of convincing the jury that she reasonably feared for her life based on her abuser's past behavior.

His main legal weapon has been the so-called battered-woman defense, in which the abused woman who has killed her spouse recounts the horrors of her abuse in graphic detail to prove to the jury that she reasonably feared for her life.

Because of his connections to Macedon, Aristotle reasonably feared for his safety and left Athens, remarking, as an oft-repeated ancient tale would tell it, that he saw no reason to permit Athens to sin twice against philosophy.

Jurors had everything they needed to make a clear-eyed analysis of whether Slager reasonably feared for his life when he pulled the trigger.

If a cop doesn't recognize that an individual is mentally ill and claims that, as a result, they reasonably feared for their lives, their decision to use lethal force may be legally justifiable in a court of law.

What happened there is more a reflection of sickening, random evil than of something people should reasonably fear.

Lawyers for the defendants had claimed that without knowing why one among them was being investigated, they all reasonably fear investigation, which hampers their ability to zealously represent their clients, which their ethical obligations require.