Sentence examples for we are afraid of doing from inspiring English sources
Or because we are afraid of doing it wrong and making things worse.
Hari goes to Portugal, where all drug possession was decriminalised 13 years ago, and where even the police chief of the Lisbon drug squad now admits, "The things we were afraid of didn't happen".
But tepid Democrats are afraid of doing anything.
"A lot of startups are afraid of doing this because they're afraid of getting 'paid for work' classification issues.
"Junior people are afraid of doing anything unconventional for fear of looking sophomoric," he says.
"The Japanese are afraid of doing something different," says Seisuke Hayashi.
They're likely to fail exactly because they are afraid of doing so.
They are afraid of doing the "wrong thing" -- so they do nothing.
Most people are afraid of doing new things.
"We cannot be afraid of doing something, because we have to take care of the crash victims".
On the international level what we are afraid of, or don't want to see, is the US continuing to put the lowest common denominator out on the table, in terms of reductions.
