Sentence examples for seriously afraid from inspiring English sources

"People were seriously afraid that this was going to expand, implode into an event of worldwide crisis and possibly involve us in a world war.

"Statements I've heard, Obama, they're seriously afraid of him," said Bobby Rollans, a retired teacher, sitting at Savanna's, a restaurant perched on the Arkansas River.

"I'm seriously afraid of feeling like my career matters less than his if I don't get a desk in our place really soon; like I'm the writer's wife, rather than a writer in my own right," she wrote.

"I am seriously afraid that we might end up in a civil war, just because one militia thinks they should get more power," said Mariam, a 32-year-old mother of two, who declined to give her last name.

At the very least, the country will soon have to restrain its reckless fiscal pump-priming and will need to stop bankrolling SOE reform and rural migration.That presages an economic slowdown, and slower growth is the one thing China's leaders are seriously afraid of.

Last December, when Baba's suicidal thoughts were overwhelming, she began to feel seriously afraid for her safety.

He does not want to enter history as a loser.(Denkler) Is the planned US missile shield a psychological problem?(Rahr) The Russians will not seriously be afraid of this project.

Having already pulled one ad from the Super Bowl because it offended vegetarians – seriously, they're afraid of herbivores?

Seriously, is she afraid if she's gone for too long she'll become irrelevant?

Seriously, I'm afraid at this rate we'll run out of internet by Memorial Day.

Yet, whether simple or difficult to grasp, its origin and reason for being remain obscure, perhaps just because the theologians never took the ceremony seriously, or were afraid of compromising their reputations by attending to something so grotesquely silly.