For example, if the mother responds anxiously when she has to monitor her child's blood glucose, the child may start to cry.
Now, on the morning of Oct. 30, preparing to help the city respond to this new threat, Dr. Ostroff anxiously arrived at City Hall so early that the night-duty police officer had to let him in.
They're anxiously waiting to see how audiences respond Sunday to ABC's broadcast of the 88th Academy Awards.
Nearly 3,000 white farmers in Zimbabwe were anxiously waiting yesterday to see how the government would respond after hundreds of farmers defied an order to abandon their farms.
Developments all but dried up and voluntary organisations – big and small – are looking anxiously at their level of reserves, wondering how to respond to a sharp increase in demand from an increasingly restricted funding base.
Japan's neighbors watched the crisis anxiously, with urgent meetings among Chinese officials about how to respond should radioactive fallout reach their shores.
A president anxiously focused on the "war on terror" was all too slow to respond, apparently unable to decide if conspicuous federal intervention would make him look strong or weak.
Like people everywhere, artists Paul Myoda and Julian LaVerdiere responded to the attack by anxiously calling around to friends, lining up to give blood, trying to figure out what to do, how to help.
You call a past love to chat or meet up, or to apologize for a petty remark that ballooned into a fight, and he responds with silence, leaving you to anxiously check your phone approximately once every 2.5 minutes.
The idea of someone hanging on, anxiously eyeing the mail every morning, wondering if you received the original request, wondering if you've responded yet, wondering if you ever will, is bound to bring back memories of all the rebuffs and repudiations one's suffered – in my case a half a century of unrequitedness.
