Putin's calculations are proving correct: it is more likely that citizens of western states, scared by economic woes and the possibility of war, would elect new governments, replacing Putin's enemies with more amenable politicians, than Russians would start to protest because of devastation and rising food prices.
Mr. Jordan said Mr. Edwards's "business practices had severe impact on the business climate of the state," scaring away businesses that might have come to the state had their executives not been frightened by a culture of bribes and kickbacks.
In 1996 Patricia White Bull from Albuquerque, New Mexico, woke after 16 years in a persistent vegetative state, scaring the life out of a nurse who was tucking in her bedding by shouting, "Don't do that!".
Through bloodshed, they managed to keep voter turnout down in some states and scare off many poll workers, prompting one former president of the Federal Election Institute, Luis Carlos Ugalde, to lament that this was the first Mexican election in which drug dealers played a visible role in interrupting the process.
The results may be murky, where the Tea Partiers ride to victory in some states, but scare off independents so much in others that Republicans wind up losing races they should have won.
The Roosevelt dynamo, Ms. Alexander feels that her skin color is being used by the state to scare the neighbors.
As a lifetime anxiety sufferer and hypochondriac, any unexplained change of state scares me: even a very good one.
"The ineffectiveness of these anti-tobacco measures is connected to the state being scared of provoking the protests of various social groups," Mr. Yanin said.
The UNHCR, meanwhile, warned that "increasing numbers of families are arriving [in neighbouring countries] in a shocking state, exhausted, scared and with their saving depleted".
Others argued that the rules set by the government for the auction allowed too much state intervention, scaring off big players such as BP and Exxon.
