• Ms Davies told the inquest she became frightened a month before she was due to deliver because the active baby that had been kicking and punching inside her had stopped moving.

    BBC: England

  • The strategic chatter has frightened a lot of Israelis.

    ECONOMIST: Israel v Iran

  • Given that I normally have all the coordination and balance of a frightened puppy on a see-saw, my lack of preparation could only end in tears.

    BBC: Eurovision 2010: Filming the interval act

  • Adam Sandler plays Barry Egan, a frightened fellow in a bright-blue suit, a nerd who sells merchandise out of a San Fernando Valley warehouse and stammers his way through the simplest encounters.

    NEWYORKER: Punch-Drunk Love

  • That was the last time I saw him, the day he came for his money, and he had a dark, set look to his eyes that frightened me a little.

    NEWYORKER: Something Like Happy

  • Though a few dozen are currently on death row, the supreme court's judges are too frightened of a deadly reprisal to hear their appeals.

    ECONOMIST: Islamist militancy is alive and well

  • At the same time, Todenhofer was starting to wonder if there wasn't a downside to plucking a frightened and anxious girl from a shanty town on the edge of Baghdad and exposing her to life in the West in short bursts that were hard for her to make sense of.

    BBC: Marwa's story: 10 years since the bomb fell

  • Vivian had never seen her father cry, and it frightened her a bit.

    NEWYORKER: Temporary

  • Jordan is so frightened of a jihadist coup that its government statements are barely distinguishable from Muslim Brotherhood press releases.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Olmert's international coalition

  • But to really be frightened in a movie, to watch a film and really be involved and scared actually requires some skill.

    FORBES: Monster Mash: A Conversation With Filmmaker And Author John Landis

  • But the woman sounded frightened in a way that set her apart from the other women, who were simply nervous during their interviews.

    NEWYORKER: Temporary

  • Iraqi officials have said the families were frightened by a series of killings and threats by Muslim extremists ordering them to convert to Islam or face death.

    CNN: Thousands of Christians flee Iraq city

  • The man we see is sad and vulnerable and ferocious all at once frightened as a virtually parentless boy in Brooklyn who was robbed by neighborhood kids, then remorseless as a baby gangster robbing drug dealers.

    NEWYORKER: Tyson

  • For the economy as a whole, lots of cash in frightened hands is a liquidity trap.

    FORBES

  • He claims this was a frightened and bewildered electorate who had believed Labour's negative campaign that there was a less painful way to overcome the country's economic ills.

    BBC: Vote 2011: Lib Dem gloom in Clegg's Sheffield powerbase

  • Helicopters and rescue vehicles gave chase while millions held their breath because they thought a 6-year-old boy might be sailing through the skies, cold, frightened and just a gust of wind from falling.

    NPR: A Boy, A Balloon And A Lot Of Hot Air

  • One row a couple of years ago grew so heated that a frightened secretary, sitting outside Mr Nasser's office, summoned security.

    ECONOMIST: The shake-up at Ford

  • "I think she was fearless but she knew what it was like to be frightened, " a toughness she got from her upbringing, Moorehead says.

    NPR: Martha Gellhorn: 'A Twentieth Century Life'

  • Roosevelt told a frightened, destitute nation that unregulated greed is neither good policy nor good ethics, and that if we don't hang together, we'll hang separately.

    CNN: Commentary: Is Obama overexposed?

  • The actual Edie was a stick, not much more substantial than Twiggy (though sexier), with haunted, kohl-shadowed peepers and a hanging lower lip that made her look like a frightened animal.

    NEWYORKER: Double Lives

  • In their view, frightened of both a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence and of a binational state, Netanyahu will abandon his demand for a demilitarized Palestinian state and for defensible borders for Israel and voluntarily withdraw the IDF and the 250, 000 Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria to within the 1949 armistice lines.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama's failure, Netanyahu's opportunity

  • At this week's meeting in Malaysia, that question was addressed in a way that frightened the relatively few participants whose understanding of civil rights was rooted in a Western, liberal world-view.

    ECONOMIST: Islam and the West

  • By flexing its muscles so eagerly, over a relatively minor incident, it alarmed its customers and possibly frightened them off, when a softer approach might have lulled them into continued and deepening dependence.

    FORBES: The Politics of Rare Earth

  • They seemed a little frightened too of what they had done and where it might lead.

    NPR: Waiting for News About Jill Carroll

  • Still, the prospect frightened Eddie Malone, a resident of Lindenhurst on Long Island whose house has been under renovation since Sandy's flooding wiped out his first floor.

    WSJ: Sandy in back of Easterners' minds as snow falls

  • Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.

    NPR: Roth Rewrites History with a 'Plot Against America'

  • Europeans who settle in the United States are at once frightened and exhilarated by a place where people may yearn for a life free of risk (inside gated communities, for example) but know in their hearts they can never get it.

    ECONOMIST: America, Europe and the management of danger: A hazardous comparison | The

  • Fyodorov felt a little frightened.

    NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants

  • YA'AN, China (AP) Rescuers and relief teams struggled to rush supplies into the rural hills of China's Sichuan province Sunday after an earthquake left at least 180 people dead and more than 11, 000 injured and prompted frightened survivors to spend a night in cars, tents and makeshift shelters.

    NPR: China Rushes Relief After Sichuan Quake Kills 180

  • The health-care takeover was merely part of a larger liberal agenda that frightened investors as much as the events of 2008 and led to a hiring and capital strike.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: Obama's Progressive Gamble

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