"What can I say to subdue their fear?" said Tony Scotti, who for decades has run a school in Bedford, Mass., that teaches security driving skills and surveillance detection.
EACH time she marches, Mrs. Williams said, she subdues her fear, and the jackhammer pounding of her heart, with deep breathing.
It seemed, as the final, costly decades of apartheid wore on, that a peaceful transition was implausible and that the likelihood of the country, of its history, delivering a leader strong enough and forgiving enough to subdue the fears and the anger of centuries was remote, to say the least.
There, criticisms of Beijing by the media or even academics are subdued for fear of hurting business interests.
Demonstrations have nevertheless been more subdued than feared.
But germ experts told about these new products say that many of the offerings may be more effective at subduing psychological fears than in preventing infection.
Some soldiers might return to barracks, easing the locals' sense of being under the Indian army boot.Militants and pro-Pakistanis alike are also subdued because they fear that Pakistan is succumbing to dire economic and security problems.
Gay plays, in particular, tend to be retrospective in setting or tone if they include homophobic characters or plotlines and this, I fear, subdues us into believing that the problem has been solved.
One video, titled "Return Terror to the Jews," features a masked fighter who praises Palestinians who attack Jews, calling them "lone wolves who refused to be subdued and spread fear among the sons of Zion".
The MDC has also accused the police of a round-the-clock heavy deployment and surveillance by armed police at its Harvest House headquarters in Harare, describing it as "a clear sign of provocation intended to intimidate, instil fear and subdue any dissension".
