7 sentences with 'fearing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word fearing and other words derived from it.
• « Although he was famous in his own lifetime, eventually being knighted by King William and serving as president of Britain's first scientific society, Newton only published his work reluctantly, and that only after fearing that his "rivals" would steal it from him if he did not. »
• « From this point on, the great powers of Europe were in open competition with each other, fearing and resenting each other more than they feared the revolutionary forces within - one manifestation of this new rivalry was the wars that saw the birth of Italy and Germany, described above. »
• « German politicians, fearing the possibility of war on two fronts against France and Russia simultaneously, concluded an alliance with the Austrian Empire in 1879, only a little more than a decade after the Prussian-Austrian War. »
• « It is important to note that while both the British and the US supported the Greek government, the USSR gave no aid to the communist rebels, rightly fearing that doing so could lead to a much larger war. However, furious at what he saw as another example of Western capitalist imperialism, Stalin pulled the USSR out of the Bretton Woods economic agreement in early 1948. »
• « In 1959, Cuban revolutionaries overthrew the right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista (who had been an American ally), and fearing American intervention, eventually allied themselves with the USSR. Thus, when Kennedy took office in 1960, he faced not only the growing technological and military might of the USSR itself, but what he saw as a Soviet puppet on America's doorstep. »
• « On the way home, I thought of Mr. Simpson's advice; of the secret of happiness possessed by that wonderful human being. Instead of fearing life's setbacks, he simply enjoyed its joys. »