In their current mood, however, ministers are scared of doing anything to irritate motorists further.
Now we know that what they really are scared of is exactly what might happen.
Their plans rest on the assumption that many Britons are scared of new technologies, especially the Internet.
Device companies like Apple and Samsung are scared of this because they prefer the product innovation cycle.
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Although many people are scared of bees, they rarely sting and do a lot more good than harm.
Google and company are scared of possible congressional legislationand are trying to steer Congress away from doing anything.
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"Most people in this area are scared of a Republican president, " Hughes said.
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Children often hide under their beds when they are scared of something.
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"A lot of women are scared of aging so I wanted to present images of women who feel better as they age, " the 30-year-old photojournalist said.
If mobile carriers are scared of startup messaging apps such as Line and WhatsApp, they have nobody to blame but themselves and the years of ill-will their ridiculous fees have fostered in their customer base.
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It helps in some ways because some people are scared of you and won't start on you or anything, but then it's bad in the other sense that people will start on you for it.
Tziahanas, who works the compliance side of social media, said that as banks are starting their foray into social media the lawyers and compliance officers are very aggressive because they are scared of the new communications tools.
What needs to happen is that those who really are seeking change need to be able to come up with a language for those who are scared of any kind of what they see as sweeping change that indicates the incremental nature of this.
Now, some business owners may choose the easy form because "they'd rather be safe than sorry... especially if they are unsure how to do the long form or are scared of being audited, " says Tiffany Washington, owner of Washington Accounting Services Inc. in Waldorf, Md.
Aside from the Treasury bond market, fixed-income investors are scared out of their skulls.
These gibbons are not scared of people and will brachiate at full speed over your awestruck head.
Investors are understandably scared of the sovereign debt crisis unfolding in Europe.
It has mandated generous parental leave (though many women are still scared of antagonising their bosses by taking their full entitlement), subsidising kindergartens for poorer families and so on.
We are so scared of the random that we create disciplines that try to make sense of the past--but we ultimately fail to understand it, just as we fail to see the future.
Not sure why some are so scared of the unknowns, but after we convinced the CSR to send the installer with the CableCARDs and then convinced the installer to follow the TiVo CableCARD installer directions, everything was down hill from there and we were enjoying premium HD content, TiVo style.
With so much in the air regarding e-book sales (such as author royalties, size of market, rate of growth, etc) publishers are still running scared of e-books on the whole.
The difference between this rumored deal with Sprint and that of a normal MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) would be the possible integration of cellphones with VOIP service, something that the traditional phone companies are scared to death of, but integrates perfectly with the current VOIP ambitions of the cable companies.
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Beck knows that most of his supporters are white Americans, scared of losing their way of life, nostalgic for a rosy version of the past that may never have existed.
' Maybe because I'm old, the men are kind of scared of me, and they don't argue with me.
For too many Western brands, "it's the ugliest race to the bottom because the financial crisis in America and Europe means that people are getting very scared of buying expensive things, " says Sanjiv Pandita, executive director of the Hong Kong-based Asia Monitor Resource Center, which tracks labor conditions across the region.
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