The Buddhist parties fear they would lose half their seats if they had to fight an election in their present fractured state.
With a British general election to be called in the first half of 2010, Lisbon supporters fear that Mr Klaus may withhold his signature long enough to leave Lisbon in limbo until a Conservative government takes power in Britain.
Fear of strangers puts nearly half of London children off walking to school, a survey suggests.
Given how poorly the market traded in the second half of 2011, there is some fear that this rally is not sustainable.
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Because the euro-11 account for about half of Britain's exports, they fear that this will put them at a disadvantage relative to the euro zone, where exchange-rate risk will have disappeared.
Since Palm's announcement at CES this year, news surrounding the Pre has been a veritable whirlwind of activity: rumors, half-truths, hate, love, fear-mongering, fanboyism, rampant gadget-lust... and even a little late night celebrity for the pint-sized phone.
In 2007, LCD Soundsystem released "All My Friends, " a seven-and-a-half-minute club epic that explored the universal fear of growing up and getting too old to have fun.
Jordanian officials have shunned public announcements, apparently for fear of exacerbating emotions in a country where half the population is Palestinian.
With Italy's strength lying in their forwards, England's clearest advantage was out wide but their fear of running the ball from their own half - surely under orders from the England coaching staff - was hampering their efforts to develop any attacking momentum.
The fear and anticipation of an attack should make the first half of the game more suspenseful.
Philips cites studies saying that some 30% of home networking products are returned because people cannot get them to work, and almost half the people thinking about buying a digital camera delay their purchase because they fear they might find it too complicated.
Some fear unification might be costly: GDP per head for Turkish-Cypriots is half as big as for Greek-Cypriots, and taxpayers may have to compensate property-owners.
Analysts fear that the implied assumption, that the banks will have to write off just under half of all their property loans, may still prove too optimistic.
Over the past week and a half we saw a significant increase in volatility and, as a result, a significant swing in sentiment toward fear.
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Employment in farming and related industries fell by half between 1994 and 1997: many farmers laid off workers before the new laws came into effect, for fear that it would be harder later.
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