There is even a new term for the fear of being without your cell phone, affecting some 66% of Americans: Nomophobia.
It first demanded, and quickly got, the demilitarisation of a jungle area the size of Switzerland in the southern part of the country, so that it could prepare for talks without the fear of attack.
At the Mental Health Association of New York State, chief executive Glenn Liebman said the concern is not just veterans who won't get treatment for fear of the stigma of being listed in the state database or who will hide serious issues from their therapists.
Mr Ferguson announced in January that the route of the BRT system should not run across Prince Street Bridge or through the harbour for fear of clogging up the bridge and compromising the ambiance of the historic docks.
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They are also competing in a beauty contest for the backing of potentially hostile unions, which fear for the jobs of 19, 000 members employed in several British factories.
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Indeed, if the rest of the economy remains moribund, the government may be reluctant to withdraw the stimulus for fear of pushing the economy back into recession.
Finally, for all the fear of another banking crisis there is something most politicians privately fear more - the end of London as the world's leading financial city.
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.
With many federal repair facilities now facing bleak times as the volume of war-related work slows, Republican and Democratic legislators alike will press to pull outsourced work back into the government for fear of the electoral consequences if they fail to do so.
She's afraid of leaving the house for fear of being bombarded by people, the friend said.
In 1986, Mr. Cooper wrote a policy memo for the Reagan administration that argued a law prohibiting discrimination based on handicap didn't apply to employers who wanted to fire employees with AIDS, if the basis for the decision was fear of catching the disease.
So the unusually high French savings rate, for instance, is not an opportunity for the economy but evidence of French fear for the future.
National guarantees for the fund cannot be increased much for fear of endangering the rating of France and others.
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The government is avoiding it for now, for fear of jeopardising the current fragile talks with the Palestinian leadership.
The photographs are not being released to the public for fear of impeding the investigation, the source said.
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"They only maintain the charges for fear of how the radicals would react if they dropped them, " said Benkin.
In his marvelously crass book, How to Get Rich, Felix Dennis, an immensely successful publishing entrepreneur, says the biggest barrier people face in their quest for wealth is the fear of failing in public.
Reluctant to further expand the government's balance sheet both for political reasons and for fear of forfeiting the confidence of markets, he is planning instead to expose taxpayers once again to large contingent liabilities in the hope that these policies spur sufficient growth to ensure these liabilities never crystallize.
Interviews in Rome with dozens of church officials, Vatican insiders and foreign government officials close to the church, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, mapped out that hermetic universe.
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As Hollywood's obsession with the opening weekend filters into the general consciousness, cinema-goers may be rushing to the big screen for fear of missing the new release altogether.
Some privy to the process suspect that Lord Irvine is now reluctant to take the lead on the government's plans to reform the House of Lords, for fear of the revenge other ministers would take once he is the one with concrete proposals to defend.
But now that Tunisia, Morocco, and Egypt have all gone to the polls in the fall of 2011, my optimism has been crushed and I fear for the rights of women in the Middle East.
India hinted that it would suspend the state government during the election to reduce the risk of rigging, then backed away for fear of offending the chief minister, Farooq Abdullah, whose National Conference party is part of the coalition that governs in Delhi.
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The odds still favour the opening of talks, if only for fear of the fallout from not opening them.
Previous governments have tip-toed close to the nuclear threshold, but pulled back for fear of the high price India would pay for breaking the nuclear taboo.
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.
The ratings agency put the banks on review in June for fear that the possibility of a Greek default was not adequately reflected in their current grade.
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Descendants of Spaniards who left the country for fear of political persecution or economic hardship between 1936 and 1955 will now be able to apply for nationality before 2011.
"We have concerns that a hospital has been partially damaged, a market has caught on fire, the airport was closed down for inspection because of the fear if they landed any planes, " it might cause problems, Ulrich said.
Radcliffe did not reveal the name of the pump at first for fear of exposing patients, but after Medtronic tried to gloss over the threat, he went ahead and disclosed it, prompting the company to act.
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