what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.

In 2007, Clarence Thomas published his autobiography, My Grandfather's Son, in which he revisited the controversy, calling Hill his " most traitorous adversary " and saying that pro-choice liberals who feared that he would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade if he were seated on the Supreme Court used the scandal against him.

They treated comradeship as of the greatest importance, those among them being the most feared and most powerful who were thought to have the largest number of attendants and associates.

Nausea and vomiting are two of the most feared cancer treatment-related side-effects for cancer patients and their families.

However, his condottieri, most notably Vitellozzo Vitelli and the Orsini brothers, feared Cesare's cruelty and set up a plot against him.

He took a small but pivotal role as Andy Warhol in Basquiat, artist / director Julian Schnabel's 1996 biopic of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and co-starred in Giovanni Veronesi's Spaghetti Western Il Mio West ( 1998, released as Gunslinger's Revenge in the US in 2005 ) as the most feared gunfighter in the region.

In a 2005 Gallup poll ( U. S. A .), a national sample of adolescents between the ages of 13 and 15 were asked what they feared the most.

Some of the most influential leaders of the Tories united with members of the opposition Whigs and set out to resolve the crisis by inviting William of Orange to England, which the stadtholder, who feared an Anglo-French alliance, had indicated as a condition for a military intervention.

As a result the Unionists were able to gain most of the votes of the middle classes, who now feared Bolshevik revolution, setting the social and geographical electoral pattern in Scotland that would last until the late 20th century.

The leaders of PDPA apparently feared that Daoud was planning to exterminate them all, especially since most of them were arrested by the government shortly after.

Though they are the most " popular " students, the Heathers are feared and hated.

* The Dinosaurs — How some dinosaurs lived after most of them had become extinct, and how it felt to be that last existing dinosaur in an age where all the current mammals feared his kind as demons.

Al-Nuwayri in his Nihaya reports that the Prophet is alleged to have said what he feared most for his community were the practices of the people of Lot ( although he seems to have expressed the same idea in regard to wine and female seduction ).

" He rose within a few months to be the city ’ s most feared agitator.

This uncompromising principle, along with their reputation for courage, excellent training, and heavy armament, made the Templars one of the most feared combat forces in medieval times.

The West Indies teams of the 1980s, which regularly fielded a bowling attack comprising some of the best fast bowlers in cricket history, were perhaps the most feared exponents.

In addition to the People's Army, the Department of General Intelligence ( Mukhabarat ) was the most notorious arm of the state security system, feared for its use of torture and assassination.

When Theseus appeared in the town, his reputation had preceded him, having travelled along the notorious coastal road from Troezen and slain some of the most feared bandits there.

Some scholars have suggested that it was inevitable that wolves, being the most feared predators in Europe, were projected into the folklore of evil shapeshifters.

For example, he would defeat Chen Zuyi, one of the most feared and respected pirate captains, and return him back to China for execution.

Possibly the most famous bug is the Year 2000 problem, also known as the Y2K bug, in which it was feared that worldwide economic collapse would happen at the start of the year 2000 as a result of computers thinking it was 1900.

According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina, an estimated 17 to 21 million people in the United States are affected by a fear of this day making it the most feared day and date in history.

From 1943 on, it was clear that a consensus existed in the German Army officer corps that of all Allied ground force commanders, the enemy general they feared the most was Patton.

" Oberstleutnant Horst Freiherr von Wangenheim, operations officer of the 277th Volksgrenadier Division, stated that " General Patton is the most feared general on all fronts.

The arming, clothing, feeding and supervision of the contras became the most ambitious paramilitary and political action operation mounted by the agency in nearly a decade.

This decree suspended most human rights provided for by the constitution and thus allowed for the arrest of political adversaries, mostly Communists, and for general terrorizing by the SA, the Nazi paramilitary force, of other voters before the upcoming election.

Sawyer established his authority over most of Monrovia, with the help of a paramilitary police force, the ' Black Berets ', under Brownie Samukai, while the rest of the country was in the hands of the various warring factions.

While in other nations the customs officials were responsible for most stops, in Mali, gendarmerie ( National paramilitary police ) and the Police force were found creating the majority of bribe extorting roadblocks.

Later under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler between 1929 and 1945, the SS was renamed the " Schutz-Staffel " and grew from a small paramilitary formation to one of the largest and most powerful organizations in the Third Reich.

Modern uniforms are most often worn by armed forces and paramilitary organizations such as police, emergency services, security guards, in some workplaces and schools and by inmates in prisons.

During the Troubles, over 300 members of the RUC were killed and almost 9, 000 injured in paramilitary assassinations or attacks, mostly by the Provisional IRA, which made the RUC ( in 1983 ) the most dangerous police force in the world of which to be a member.

The Basin City Police are more or less along the lines of paramilitary or SWAT, as they have to deal with incredibly high crime rates among criminals and civilians alike, which is why they have access to what most would consider " heavy weaponry " and full body armor.

" The AUC, formed in 1997, is the most prominent paramilitary group.

Like most fire departments in the United States, the New York City Fire Department is organized in a paramilitary fashion.

David was the most successful paramilitary officer in the U. S. Army, training under the alias of " Cain ", a rival assassin, in a plan to draw out Carlos the Jackal.

About 120 of them joined the Special Air Mobile Force ; 31 of those soldiers deserted to become known as " Los Zetas ", one of the most powerful drug cartels in Mexico and considered by the U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration as the most violent drug cartel and paramilitary enforcement group in Mexico.

This coalition was composed of four major front organizations: the Romanian Society for Friendship with the Soviet Union, the Union of Patriots, the Patriotic Defense ( a paramilitary wing of the PCR ), and, by far the most widely backed by the Romanian populace, Groza's Ploughmen's Front.

Nash sent men on horseback after the fleeing black Republicans, and his paramilitary group killed most of them on the spot.

Recruiting from the local community at a time of intercommunal strife, it was accused of sectarian attitudes and collusion with loyalist paramilitary organisations through most of its term.

IRIN / UN news agency reveiled that journalists and writers are the most vulnerable victims to killing, deaths, threats, kidnapping, torture and detention are commonly exercised by un controlled Iraqi forces, paramilitary organisations and Shiia or Suni militias.

Moreover, in CIA cryptonymic practice, the PBSUCCESS and PBFORTUNE operational names were unusual, because most operational names either were arbitrary-word titles or misleading titles that were meant to hide the true temper of paramilitary actions.

After Hitler's rise to power, Ernst Röhm, who headed the SA, then the most important paramilitary wing of the Nazi party, called for a " second revolution ," aimed at removing the elites from control.

Despite being the most covert unit in U. S. Special Operations, numerous books have been published on the exploits of CIA paramilitary officers, including Conboy & Morrison's " Feet to the Fire: CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia ", and Warner's " Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos.

Several senior U. S. officials stated that the " joint efforts of JSOC and CIA paramilitary units was the most significant contributor to the defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq ".

Trenck earned most of his fame during the War of the Austrian Succession, as the leader and commander of a unit of pandurs, or paramilitary troops in the Austrian army which specialized in frontier warfare, guerrilla tactics and surprise hit-and-run actions, into which he recruited mostly Croatian mercenaries, experienced fighters from the Austro-Ottoman border.

The Volkspolizei was responsible for most law enforcement in East Germany, but its organisation and structure were such that it could be considered a paramilitary force as well.

Blaškić served almost nine years in prison before the appeals panel acquitted him of most of the charges in July 2004, as the defence proved that he did not command all the HVO units in the area or any paramilitary units.