Sentence examples for where afraid of from inspiring English sources

According to Heidi Larson, UNICEF's Senior Communications Advisor for Immunization and Child Survival, the population was eager to try anything to rid themselves of the terror: "The whole effort to address polio epidemic in the US was in the thick of the time when polio was around and people where afraid of it – children were told not to go into swimming pools.

In New York, where we were most wild for self-invention, where we were most afraid of missing out, where we were so afraid of being only one, lost in a crowd.

Go into the more chic areas where people are afraid of crime, afraid because shops and businesses are shutting and afraid of losing their social status.

"We're from a generation where everyone was afraid of the Red Menace, of 007 and hiding under desks during drills – all of that stuff.

"We only have so many criminal justice dollars, and we need to apply them, in my judgment, toward the areas where we're afraid of the perpetrators," said State Senator John Whitmire, Democrat of Houston.

By Patricia Woolf and John McCarten The New Yorker, August 24 , 1963P. 18 Overheard in the lobby of the Billy Rose Theatre, where "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is playing: "Who is Virginia Woolf?" View Article By Rivka Galchen By Ceridwen Dovey By Malcolm Gladwell By Jia Tolentino.

By Patricia Woolf and John McCarten The New Yorker, August 24 , 1963P. 18 Overheard in the lobby of the Billy Rose Theatre, where "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is playing: "Who is Virginia Woolf?" View Article By Anthony Lane By Rebecca Mead By Jia Tolentino By Andy Borowitz.

The New Yorker, January 8 , 2001P. 85 Briefly Noted review of "Upside Down" (Metropolitan; $24) by Eduardo Galeano... [T] his book is a primer to the "looking-glass world" of a hemisphere where "democracy is afraid of remembering and language is afraid of speaking".

"Play It Cool" takes place in 1950s Hollywood at Mary's Hideaway, a gay bar where everyone is afraid of police raids: the lesbian owner; her torch singer lover; a smooth movie studio executive; and the young aspiring actor, fresh off the bus from North Carolina, whom the studio guy has just picked up.

"You're building a small army, you're investing in characters and going out in the actual world and socializing with actual people and that's got staying power, especially in a world where people are afraid of each other," she said.

But it is clear at the same time that this is an extremely difficult thing to do in a world where everyone is afraid of the short-run consequences of such a policy".