Congress is afraid of their boss. (We, the people.) They worry about getting fired.
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The second explanation for General Musharraf's half-measures is that he is afraid of the extremist groups.
No country in the area is afraid of Ecuador, says Frechette, the former U.S. ambassador.
"I am an old man who is afraid of no one, " Anselmo told him.
People are always asking what he is afraid of, but he can think of nothing.
The usual answer is that German taxpayers are tight-fisted and that Mrs Merkel is afraid of them.
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They've managed to turn a self-confident and appealing candidate into one who is afraid of veering off her talking points.
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She is afraid of what will be lost when those who have lived through China's modern history inevitably grow old and die.
So the number four represents something a person is afraid of because it symbolically connects with whatever they fear most in their life.
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He is afraid of the unknown, yet he forges on as he knows he must start looking if he is to find new cheese.
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"We choreographers get our fingertips on that world everyone else is afraid of, where there are no words for things, " he told Jerome Robbins.
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' Angie believes her mom is afraid of what she'll find when she goes back--death in the streets, a toxic wasteland, people who've lost their minds and their morals.
It is an open secret that the ageing King Abdullah would like to lift the ban on women driving but he is afraid of the backlash this would cause amongst the clerics.
People were a little afraid of her, as one is afraid of those whose vision is clear and who retain everything, as one is afraid of life, with its inspirations, its unfathomable poetry.
Jimmy Sanchez, the youngest miner at 19, told his girlfriend he is afraid of the dark, confined spaces and the spirits of dead miners -- a harrowing trifecta for a man in his predicament.
Like an ageing family pet, Rover is fit only for putting down, but the government is afraid of 6, 000 jobs going at the Longbridge plant on the outskirts of Birmingham, surrounded by Labour-held marginal seats.
"Everybody is afraid of Rolex, but the true aficionado knows that it makes what is pretty much an indestructible watch, " says Jeffrey Hess, who has written an unauthorized history of the company with James M.
Branson is keenly afraid of failure--because it would tarnish his image as a marketing Midas.
Sometimes the writer who overloads an opening passage is simply afraid of boring the reader.
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Correa also stressed he is not afraid of international repercussions that might stem from whatever decision Ecuador makes.
"Chuck Hagel is not afraid of challenge -- or risk, " his biographer, Charlyne Berens, wrote in 2006.
There has been, there are so many media outlets that each one is really afraid of losing the audience.
Marios-Aristotle also sees opportunity in Greece's future, and he is not afraid of the pain that may still come.
Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan is not afraid of ruffling feathers.
Google's experience with Android, which has become the dominant operating system on new smartphones, shows it is not afraid of a scrap in the consumer arena.
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Finally, Steve Jobs is not afraid of showing his enthusiasm.
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