"fear" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was a world armed with weapons so deadly that only the fear of retaliation kept the peace.
- Another reason that bosses do not fire some problem employees is from a fear of retaliation.
- A fear of retaliation was the main French reason.
- Those who wanted to speak out about crime kept silent in fear of retaliation.
- In the end, independent thought and expression may be curbed by fear of retaliation.
- The reason, they said, was in large part a fear of retaliation.
- But the joy in the community was tempered by a fear of white retaliation.
- He said "fear of retaliation by the Bush administration" had also made some states reluctant.
- It is probably true that fear of retaliation kept Iraq from using chemical weapons against coalition forces during the gulf war.
- To do so, they must feel confident that they can take action without fear of retaliation.
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