Sentence examples for so in fear of from inspiring English sources

And so, in fear of what Bob might do were he to be cut loose, and also aware that what he knows now gives him power, Pete keeps Bob on.

I was so in fear of being rejected.

But there's no reason to assume each person who declined to take the test did so in fear of a positive result, Scriven wrote.

It is, however, clear that as the girls were being taken from their dormitories and marched off in lorries late at night, many were so in fear of being shot that they missed their opportunity to run away.

Even if it was overwhelmingly in favour of the Syrian government, it could not say so, in fear of losing support in Gaza, which is supportive of the Syrian street.

There has always been a dark side to this evergreen tale, a shadow of dread, a xenophobia rooted not so much in fear of assault from outside aggressors as in a dull-witted suspicion of those among us who look or sound or somehow seem as if they "don't come from around here".

The problem is that the laws involving surveillance of our personal data have become so elaborate and so mired in fears of terrorism and other horrifying crimes that few people get as upset about them as they do about a minion-thumping TV presenter.

After Sept. 11, 2001, in New York, when so many cowered in fear of another terrorist attack, restored security measures had already eliminated any new threat.

Hopkins may be addressing "Thou mastering me God" — the gerund forced to do duty as an adjective, in one of his characteristically modern wrenchings of language — but he does so in fear and trembling, with "The frown of his face / Before me, the hurtle of hell / Behind".

My family and so many others lived in fear of the Soviet boot.

Anti-NATO propaganda was at a height and a draconian information law was in force so that journalists lived in fear of their livelihoods and even their lives if they reported something deemed even remotely unpatriotic.