He has trouble relating to the world around him and can be quite fearful of unfamiliar places.
The belief is that with more dollar-cash on everyone's balance sheets, banks will be less fearful of lending money to potential defaulters.
Neither need Mr Assad be too fearful of breaking his promise.
Given the torrent of liquidation that has occurred, how much gold can recover depends on how much residual selling remains and the capacity of would-be buyers: clearly gold is priced much more attractively than a few days ago, but buyers will be initially fearful of stepping up amid such nervousness.
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In those circumstances, Royal Bank of Scotland would be fearful that it could be forced to dispose of additional assets, because its share of the small-business banking market will still be a fraction under 25%, even after it completes a disposal of 318 branches and other assets to Santander next year.
's mind's eye, it would be the fearful apparition of the Netherlands' Neelie Kroes, the EU Commissioner for Competition.
The Republicans' leaders in Congress ditched plans for an ambitious tax cut, fearful that they would be accused of raiding Social Security.
But the effect of the new laws, says Michael Williams of the Bond Market Association in New York, could be simply to push secondary-market participants, fearful of liability, out of the sub-prime business altogether.
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And so one of the ways that they're trying to fight for better pay and better working conditions is to say, look, we want to be able to come together without being fearful of employer retaliation and organize to better our working conditions.
It's the answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
Unfortunately, judges, fearful of appeals, tend to be more accommodating to the defendants' claims and challenges--at the expense of the attacked.
Regulators think that some high-frequency traders switched off their programs when prices began to spiral, fearful that their trades would be cancelled because of the severity of the declines.
For example, you may know that Mom or Dad is not safe to be driving any longer, but you are fearful of asking or telling your parent to give it up.
Unsurprisingly, drug companies around the world are fearful that their brand will be shunned if news of a fake gets out.
Fearful that their candidates will be assassinated, most of the main groups are not disclosing most of the names on their slates, beyond a few well-known figures.
Are they fearful of a particular outcome that may not be obvious at surface level?
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For all the attention China attracts from those fearful of an auto onslaught, it may be India--and Tata--that lead the way.
While we were fearful of the rating downgrade and continue to be concerned about the amount of debt the Treasury keeps accumulating, we have not seen any evidence that the behavior of Treasuries has fundamentally changed.
America's new rich are more fearful than their counterparts elsewhere that their children will be deprived of the work ethic to which they themselves attribute their success.
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People are fearful that their lives can easily be upended, with no certainty of landing on their feet.
The consumer may be fearful, and they may even be saving, but the death of borrowing is premature.
He is both suspicious of American motives and fearful of the way in which the military campaign will be conducted.
We need to find a way to help these young scholars be able to focus on growing and learning, instead of being fearful of being assaulted on campus.
People were hunkered down in their homes, fearful of venturing out to malls or restaurants where crowds might be targets for terrorists attacks.
British scientists tend to be less entrepreneurial than their American peers, and British business culture more fearful of failure, an occupational hazard of biotechnology.
Others are fearful right now, and they will be at least until the season finale of Fiscal Cliff.
The Germans, ever fearful that they may be asked to pick up the bill for the profligacy of others, are already squashing any talk of issuing joint euro-area bonds to relieve some of the pressure on national governments.
This is what you need to be looking at if you're out of a job or you're fearful of losing a job.
It is possible they are now putting their foot down, fearful that if Dubai does not take its share of pain, it will be back for more money in the next downturn.
Rescuers hoped that many would be found, but were fearful that some had been swept out to sea or buried in piles of debris.
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