By the end of the meal, I realized I had transformed abject fear into unmitigated glee, not to mention several full bellies.

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What is this abject fear the bond market has?

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She was an Oscar-nominated actress in the 1940s and 50s (Executive Suite, Spartacus) and she turned out to be an incredible teacher who inspired both abject fear and cult-like devotion in her students.

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The specter of the president of a major national university running in abject fear, and forming a blue ribbon committee that one suspects has as its mission to pre-emptively run up the white flag to the OCR investigators, is indeed very disturbing and does not augur well for the vibrancy and independence of higher education.

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Many of us do this but an entire generation is now living in fear of abject poverty because we depend so much on money.

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In Pakistan, many fear India has no intention of ever seriously discussing Kashmir, except perhaps one day to receive an abject admission of Pakistani defeat.

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