Sentence examples for were less afraid of from inspiring English sources

Officers expressed greater pride and were less afraid of being punished for honest mistakes, suggesting that transparency had led to a greater sense of fairness within the L.A.P.D.

Several of the witnesses subsequently moved to other areas and were less afraid of retaliation, said Lt. John Dove of the Cold Case Squad, which was still pursuing the case.

Mr. Vondra noted wryly that the famously agnostic Czechs were less afraid of hell than Americans, but acknowledged that Mr. Topolanek's "overstatement" may have been intended to prove his relevance.

Vermeersch seemed to refer to death as an option that had upsides and downsides, like any other choice, and I mentioned that it appeared that a lot of people in Belgium were less afraid of death than I was.

– Sarah Birch, professor of politics at the University of Glasgow Spontaneity should be the norm in politics: It would help if politicians had the courage to be frank and were less afraid of going 'off-message'.

Campaigners counter that many ruses would be banned if governments were less afraid of scaring off mobile capital.Trade is "a ready-made vehicle" for dirty money, says Balesh Kumar of the Enforcement Directorate, an Indian agency that fights economic crime.

There's no question that the Democrats are less afraid of him than they were".

Still, you sometimes wish he would be less afraid of his keen musical intelligence.

I'm sure most Greenlanders are less afraid of global warming than westerners.

"I like helping younger women be less afraid of getting closer to death," beams Jane Fonda.

Publications and ad agencies are less afraid of Yahoo than Google, Mr. Squali said.