This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.

Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident ''.

Mr. Philip Toynbee writes, for example, that `` in terms of probability it is surely as likely as not that mutual fear will lead to accidental war in the near future if the present situation continues.

It is Kat's death that eventually makes Bäumer careless whether he survives the war or not, but that he can face the rest of his life without fear.

There was fear that Britain would soon be at war with these powers as a consequence of the Batavian revolution in the Netherlands.

It was their fear of the spectre of 1914 that emerged victorious in the conflict of goals between armament in breadth for a short war and armament in depth for a feared long war.

He stressed the dialectical interaction of diverse factors, noting how unexpected developments unfolding under the " fog of war " ( i. e., in the face of incomplete, dubious, and often completely erroneous information and high levels of fear, doubt, and excitement ) call for rapid decisions by alert commanders.

This led many commentators to assume that Nicaraguans voted against the Sandinistas out of fear of a continuation of the contra war and economic deprivation.

In the following decades, fear of communism and the Great Depression of 1929 – 1933 led to the rise of extreme nationalist governmentssometimes loosely grouped under the category of fascismin Italy ( 1922 ), Germany ( 1933 ), Spain ( after a civil war ending in 1939 ) and other countries such as Hungary ( 1944 ), Romania ( 1940 ) and Slovakia ( 1939 ).

The compromise actually did not alter the tariff as much as the southern states had hoped, though they agreed not to continue pursuing the issue for fear of civil war.

Above all, in time of peace this is fine, but when there is a fear that there may even be a war, then more importantly, considering the welfare of the imperial house, I wonder about the wisdom of a member of the imperial family serving prime minister.

The advantage of Britain's new colony in providing a non-Russian source of flax and hemp for naval supplies was referred to in an article in Lloyd ’ s Evening Post of 5 October 1787 which urged: “ It is undoubtedly the interest of Great-Britain to remain neutral in the present contest between the Russians and the Turks ” and observed, “ Should England cease to render her services to the Empress of Russia, in a war against the Turks, there can be little of nothing to fear from her ill-will.

Some in the German military clamored for a preemptive war with Russia, but Bismarck said that " Preemptive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.

Petrarch's quest for love leads to hopelessness and irreconcilable anguish, as he expresses in the series of oxymorons in Rima 134 " Pace non trovo, et non ò da fa guerra ": " I find no peace, and yet I make no war :/ and fear, and hope: and burn, and I am ice "

Memories of war, fear and friendship in my home city, where time has stood still, The Independent, Robert Fisk, 19 March 2005.

The formation of the Grand Alliance and outbreak of war against France in 1689 meant that for several years ships from Asia avoided the island for fear of being attacked by French men-of-war.

This suspicion was based on the presence of Serbian ultra-nationalist and former paramilitary Vojislav Šešelj being Prime Minister of Yugoslavia ; a fear of a repeat of atrocities similar to those committed by Serb forces in Bosnia ; and suspicion of Milošević's influence in the previous war atrocities.

During the Second World War the allies adopted the Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from fear, and freedom from want, as their basic war aims.

Those who believe and those who are Jews and Christians, and Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day and do righteous good deeds shall have their reward with their Lord, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve ... let there be no compulsion in religion "-that all monotheistic religions or people of the book have a chance of salvation, to the most exclusive teaching common amongst Salafis and Wahhabis, and supported by several works of medieval Islamic theology and by traditions ( hadith ) which are considered correct ( sahih ) by Sunni Muslims, for the most part are summed up in Surah 9: 5, 29: " Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them, and besiege them, and lay in wait in every stratagem of war.

Mao Zedong urged the socialist camp not to fear nuclear war with the United States since, even if " half of mankind died, the other half would remain while imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist.

This understanding provides a very simple example of the fact that one can eliminate fear without instituting any controls.

And we can add that Krutch's interpretation of purgation is also one answer to Plato's fear that poetry will encourage our passions.

and then, with this God on our side, we can face the whole world without fear.

`` Well '', remarked one gentleman who had been forced to accompany his wife, `` the good Lord can eat where angels fear to tread ''.

Adventurous experiences create psychological and physiological arousal, which can be interpreted as negative ( e. g. fear ) or positive ( e. g. flow ), and which can be detrimental as stated by the Yerkes-Dodson law.

The root meaning of the word anxiety is ' to vex or trouble '; in either presence or absence of psychological stress, anxiety can create feelings of fear, worry, uneasiness, and dread.

However, anxiety should not be confused with fear, it is more of a dreaded feeling about something which appears intimidating and can overcome an individual.

You feel an intense fear when you think of dying, or you may think of it more often than normal, or can ’ t get it out of your mind.

The fear of spiders can be treated by any of the general techniques suggested for specific phobias.

In some extreme cases, even a picture or a realistic drawing of a spider can also trigger fear.

Studies with crickets have shown that a fear of spiders can develop before birth.

Now researchers have proven that unborn crickets can gain a fear of spiders based on their mother's harrowing experiences.

I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear.

Bioterrorism is an attractive weapon because biological agents are relatively easy and inexpensive to obtain, can be easily disseminated, and can cause widespread fear and panic beyond the actual physical damage they can cause.

Psychologically, the DMT experience can be overly-intense, potentially causing overwhelming fear and difficulty integrating experiences if one is not mentally prepared.

By a similar token, a fear of experts can arise from fear of an intellectual elite's power.

Another common fear can be of pain, or of someone damaging a person.

In the real world, fear can be acquired by a frightening traumatic accident.

This suggests that fear can develop in both conditions, not just simply from personal history.

Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

In November 2004, the manufacturers, Unilever, announced that the composition of Bovril was being changed from beef extract to a yeast extract, claiming it was to make the product suitable for vegetarians and vegans ; at that time fear of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) may have been a factor.

Some have suggested, however, that a fear of clowns may stem from early childhood experience, when infants begin to process and make sense of facial features.

Shelly Kagan examines the philosophical background of whether fear of death make sense ( not about the actual kind of emotional reaction ).

In this context he states in one of his lectures, that there are certain conditions to fear in general to make sense:

The Æsir started to fear that they would not be able to bind Fenrir, and so Odin sent Freyr's messenger Skírnir down into the land of Svartálfaheimr to " some dwarfs " and had them make a fetter called Gleipnir.

The Asgardian god Loki amplified Bobby's powers to a dangerous level, leaving him unable to make contact with any organic thing for fear of killing it.

He was incessantly tortured by the fear of being regarded as a ‘ bourgeois intellectual ’… It always seemed as if he were offering blind devotion ( to Nazism ) to make up for his lack of all those characteristics of the racial elite which nature had denied him.

Hitler added that " My only fear is that at the last moment some Schweinehund will make a proposal for mediation ".

( The title has a double meaning — the hero is literally a UN man and has superhuman abilities which make his enemies fear him as an " un-man ").

In his book he argues that although the Buddhist clergy should remain independent and undisturbed by politics, the Buddhist laymen nonetheless make good subjects under monarchs, due to their fear of retribution of karma and desire to be reborn in paradise.

The system was nearly as famous for where it was not used, as it was for the list of premier studios in which it was: the extremely sophisticated synthesizer enjoyed the distinction of being banned from many famous concert halls, out of fear that it would make the musicians themselves obsolete.

As time went by Troilo began to fear that the advanced musical ideas of the young bandoneónist might undermine the style of his orchestra and make it less appealing to dancers of tango.

Through processes of bounded rationality, people are conditioned towards strong in-group identities and are easily swayed to fear outsiders, psychological predispositions that make possible sectarian violence, genocide, and terrorism.

Muslims are told to " seek refuge in Allah from the accursed devil " but the meaning of this prayer relates to the fear Muslims should have of the wrath of God, as the purpose of the devil / satan is to mislead humans and make them disobey God.

Raeder's major fear in mid-1940 was that Hitler might not cripple Britain enough when the expected British surrender came, and instead make a " compromise peace " that would allow Britain to keep its " great sea power ".

Typically, however, his cowardice is such that when one of the characters orders him to do something, he often steps down out of fear, but is able to make up an excuse that ensures the other characters still see him as a brave and fierce individual.

Her increasing fear of Catholics led her to make a speech regarding her belief that a Catholic conspiracy was subverting the foreign office.

Diaghilev did not make this journey, because of a superstitious fear that he would die on the ocean if he ever sailed.

* The Romans succeed in detaching the Campanians from their alliance with the Latins ( through their fear of the Samnites ) and induce them to make a separate peace.

All the more reason not to show her that we fear her ... M. Marin went to the heart of the question, when he turned to us and said in despairing tones, ‘ You have reduced us to a policy of vigilance .’ Yes, M. Marin, do you think that one could make a treaty which would do away with the need for vigilance among the nations of Europe who only yesterday were pouring out their blood in battle?

# Bhaya danam deti: fear also can motivate a person to make an offering.