President Khatami has not yet dared to raise the Rushdie affair, for fear of a conservative backlash.
Chief financial officers are not getting carried away, for fear of a relapse.
One however, that you are probably reluctant to share with others, for fear of a stampede of garden gloved, stick wielding, fruit fanatics.
It urged the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to cut production quotas in February for fear of a price crash this spring.
Panic in one big market leads other traders to act like a scared herd of gazelles, running frantically for fear of a lion even if they have no idea what or where the danger is.
Although some congressional Democratic strategists are ambivalent about Gore's legal crusade, for fear of a backlash in the 2002 elections, party activists are so strongly behind Gore that it's not in the interest of congressional leaders to be anything but fully supportive in public.
Bernanke's actions recall those of the Fed during the early years of the Depression, when our central bank wouldn't ease in the face of a catastrophic contraction for fear of igniting a German-style inflation.
Nearly half of the people who play games now are women, but the community is so vile at times that many are forced to hide their gender for fear of receiving a flood of nasty message in their inbox.
But in an increasingly complex world that is over-flowing with complicated statistical probabilities upon probabilities, being willing to make a simple decision is often far safer in the long run than choosing nothing for fear of making a mistake.
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We barely glanced at our wall-scribblings for fear of what a few weeks or even hours might expose in our infatuations.
During the tour, Gou told reporters that he has trouble sleeping for fear of receiving a phone call about another mishap.
Neither should they exercise for fear of triggering a miscarriage, or get too stressed out because that's bad for the baby too.
Most people are afraid to draw the hard lines in the sand for fear of angering a friend or losing a potential client or opportunity.
But it seems curiously reluctant to make progress on its investigation of the Star and SkyTeam cartels, perhaps for fear of opening a row with the United States.
They should dress modestly "so that our clients are not forced to not look at the prosecution for fear of committing a sin under their faith, " Ms. Bormann said.
But beyond these minimal requirements, regulators must be cautious, for fear of smothering a vehicle that continues to revolutionise not only communications, but lots of other aspects of society and the economy as well.
The end of a system which had allowed the big film companies to effectively control stars' pay and publicity, meant the studios could no longer hush up personal scandals for fear of damaging a star's reputation, says Mann.
Polygamy is illegal in the US, but the authorities have reportedly been reluctant to confront the FLDS for fear of sparking a tragedy similar to the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Texas, which led to the deaths of around 80 members.
Mr Pais has collected astonishingly many examples of physicists who hesitated to publish a great discovery for fear of ridicule, only to see a Nobel prize stolen from under their noses.
Obama has said several times since the recent Wall Street crisis that, in meeting with top economists, he was encouraged to not roll out a specific plan for fear of overly politicizing the work of Congress on a government bailout of financial firms.
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"For a man with a fierce sense of independence and a fear of hospitals, this must have been a very difficult time for him, " she added.
Many smaller contractors prefer to turn a blind eye for fear of losing workers in such a tight labour market.
While neither Deutsche nor Dresdner is keen to swallow Commerzbank for fear of indigestion, a number of big foreign banks are thought to have pored over its books.
For years the fear of a large-scale exodus from Myanmar, as happened in 1978 and again in 1991-92, has scuppered efforts by international agencies to nudge Bangladesh's government into improving the lot of the Rohingyas.
She said it was a "tragedy" when a teacher is afraid to put their arm around a child who has grazed their knee in the playground for fear of being branded "a potential criminal".
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Issam - a 50-year-old owner of a large business - sends his wife to stock up on tinned food for their mountain house in fear of a possible war.
Perhaps the warning system will work not because of fear of having slow Internet for a couple of days but because of the sensation of surveillance that the system will create.
Investor demand for a higher dividend yield implied a fear of very subdued dividend growth, or even cuts in payouts.
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