Fearing a lawsuit, the airport took 14 Christmas trees down.

Fearing a lawsuit from cottage owners, Townsend ordered the tracks to be pulled up and moved in secret.

Fearing for his company ( and profits ), Spacely names George Jetson ( George O ' Hanlon ) as Throttlebottom's successor and sends George and his family to the plant.

Fearing that she would end up with an inhumane owner if sold, Andrew kept her but let her come and go.

* Mr. Fearing, a pilgrim whom GREAT-HEART had " conducted " to the Celestial City in an earlier pilgrimage.

Fearing for the safety of children, the council of city fathers sought to move the schoolhouse, but its benefactor, Mr. Wilson had died and his estate was willed to family members still living in the area.

Fearing a court-martial, Mr. Jenkins and their two daughters initially met Soga in Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 9, 2004, eventually returning together to Japan on July 18.

Fearing an American takeover, the Canadians moved toward Canadian Confederation.

Fearing Suetonius ' actions would provoke further rebellion, Nero replaced the governor with the more conciliatory Publius Petronius Turpilianus.

Fearing American political, cultural and economic penetration, Stalin eventually forbade Soviet Eastern bloc countries of the newly formed Cominform from accepting Marshall Plan aid.

Fearing that communist Korea under a Kim Il Sung dictatorship could threaten Japan and foster other communist movements in Asia, Truman committed U. S. forces and obtained help from the United Nations to counter the North Korean invasion.

Fearing the mob, they all did.

Fearing defeat, the rebels started taking hostages of the local white population in areas under their control.

Fearing for his life in the wake of a revolt in Tibet in 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama fled to India where he has led a government in exile since.

Fearing their ultra-radical ideas, which crystallised in an attack on tithes, the conservative faction led by Major-General John Lambert, supported by the use of troops to deny access to the radical factions, engineered a vote for the dissolution of the assembly, which was passed on 12 December 1653.

Fearing the worst, they asked him how the raid had gone.

Fearing that the forts might fall into French hands, Lieutenant General Sir Colin Campbell instructed Royal Engineers to blow the forts up.

Fearing growing Byzantine influence and weakening of the state, Boris viewed the introduction of the Slavic alphabet and language in church use as a way to preserve the independence of Slavic Bulgaria from Greek Constantinople.

Fearing the cold of the English winter, Gardner decided to sail to Cyprus in late 1936, remaining there into the following year.

Fearing the bombing of the city, Gardner and his wife soon moved to Highcliffe, just south of the New Forest in Hampshire.

Fearing his popularity, his opponents decided to strike.

Fearing Frederick's concentration of power, the Pope finally excommunicated the Emperor.

Fearing that Britain's victory over France in the Seven Years War ( 1756 – 1763 ) threatened the European balance of power, Spain allied themselves to France but suffered a series of military defeats and ended up having to cede Florida to the British at the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), which ended the Seven Years ' War.

Fearing the influence of the slave revolution, the United States and European powers refused to recognize Haiti, the second republic in the western hemisphere.

Fearing the worst, his friends raised the alert.

Fearing further persecution, Rebecca and her father leave England for Granada.

Fearing that the oral traditions might be forgotten, Judah HaNasi undertook the mission of compiling them in what became known as the Mishna.

Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career.

Fearing the worst Shah Jahan sealed an official Firman allowing the English to trade in Gujarat in the year 1618.

Fearing the loss of ownership rights, Groening decided to create something new and came up with a cartoon family, The Simpsons, and named the members after his own parents and sisters — while Bart was an anagram of the word brat.

Fearing that Burns will not give up, Grampa takes shelter with the Simpsons.

Fearing has recorded 8 solo albums and has won many awards for his efforts including a West Coast Music Award for Best Folk music recording as well as many Juno nominations.

Fearing that it will destroy Geezer Rock over time, Homer, who claims that “ It's time to do something I have never done — help an old man !”, rushes over and pulls it out, believing he is doing the right thing.

Fearing that bidding wars over players would become the norm, greatly increasing labor costs, NFL owners, led by league Commissioner Pete Rozelle, obtained a merger with the AFL.

Fearing that stronger measures were needed to quell the unrest, Santa Anna ordered his brother-in-law, General Martín Perfecto de Cos to " repress with strong arm all those who, forgetting their duties to the nation which has adopted them as her children, are pushing forward with a desire to live at their own option without subjection to the laws ".

Fearing that there was a risk that the battle would end with the invention being declared unpatentable due to Heaviside's prior publication, they decided to desist from the challenge and buy an option on Pupin's patent for a yearly fee so that AT & T would control both patents.

Fearing possible anti-trust issues with the Eisenhower Administration Justice Department, Scripps and Hearst rushed the merger through with unusual speed and secrecy.

Fearing the local population would be hostile to Christians, da Gama impersonated a Muslim and gained audience with the Sultan of Mozambique.

Fearing that 1st Airborne Division might be in grave danger if it landed at Arnhem the chief intelligence officer of the division, Major Brian Urquhart, arranged a meeting with Browning and informed him of the armour present at Arnhem.

Fearing they would come under French influence, the British reopened the deerskin trade with the Lower Creeks, antagonizing the Yamasee, now allies of Spain.

Fearing the consequences of a war with Rome, the king agrees to comply with the ambassador's demands.

Fearing to endanger his good relations with the powerful Dutch stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, his assistance to Spain limited itself to allowing Habsburg troops on their way to Dunkirk to employ neutral English shipping ; in 1636 and 1637 he made some halfhearted attempts to extort North Sea herring rights from Dutch fishermen until intervention by the Dutch navy made an end to such practices.

Fearing that he would be the one to kill Catreus, Althaemenes took Apemosyne and fled with her to Rhodes.

Fearing a revival of the war, Louis named the duc d ' Orléans joint President of a Regency Council, but one that would be packed with his enemies, reaching its decisions by a majority vote that was bound to go against him.

Fearing a rift between his family and al-Khatib's, Yassin initially told his family that he sustained his injuries while playing leapfrog during a sports lesson with his school friends on the beach.

Fearing for his life, he decided to move to New York City with his then-boyfriend Jed Root ( who sometimes posed as his manager ) to begin his career.

Fearing assassination on account of having discovered a trade secret of the glassmakers of Venice, he returned with Newton's help to London about the year 1725.

Fearing that the Americans, with the artillery out of the way, would move the rest of their troops across the river, Brock ordered an immediate attack on their position.

Fearing the outcome of this decision, viceroy Antonio María Bucareli y Ursúa entrusted the execution of the mandate in 1768 to two officers with a force of 500 troops.

Fearing for his personal safety, he surrounded himself with armed bodyguards at all times.

An attack on Fairhaven village itself was repelled by militia under the command of Major Israel Fearing, who had marched from Wareham, some away, with additional militiamen.

Philip gave Matilda of Portugal a dowry of a number of major Flemish towns, in an apparent slight to Baldwin V. Fearing that he would be surrounded by the royal domain of France and the County of Hainaut, Count Philip signed a peace treaty with Philip Augustus and Count Baldwin V on 10 March 1186, recognizing the cession of Vermandois to the king, although he was allowed to retain the title Count of Vermandois for the remainder of his life.

Fearing arrest the archbishop fled to Canterbury, and entered upon a violent war of words with the king, and by his firm conduct led to the establishment of the principle that peers were only to be tried in full parliament before their own order ( en pleyn parlement et devant les piers ).