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  • There are enough young Africans with the idealism, creativity, knowledge, technical ability and genius to transform the old fear-ridden Africa into their own brave new Africa.

    Alemayehu G. Mariam: Out of Touch in the Horn of Africa? Alemayehu G. Mariam 2011

  • There are enough young Africans with the idealism, creativity, knowledge, technical ability and genius to transform the old fear-ridden Africa into their own brave new Africa.

    Alemayehu G. Mariam: Out of Touch in the Horn of Africa? Alemayehu G. Mariam 2011

  • I simply note that its historical track record overall is far superior to your own fear-ridden raggedy superstition.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Gaza Tunnels 2009

  • My moment to exonerate myself had passed in failure, the class was listening to Sister talk about the Norman Conquest, and I was left alone with my bitter cup of gall, my fear-ridden, heart-thudding wait in Gethsemane.

    The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010

  • It came as a shock, that countenance imaged there a distorted and fear-ridden thing.

    "Power" by Harl Vincent, part 10 Johnny Pez 2010

  • If President Obama truly wants to deal with our mess of a health care system, perhaps somebody should read June 8 Forbes and its concise dissection of our "test madness," namely endless and fear-ridden search for illness.

    James Warren: This Week in Magazines: The "Test Madness" of Our Medical Lives 2009

  • Whether Taiwan becomes independent or unifies with China makes no difference in this regard: Taiwanese will stay fear-ridden, easy to dispirit, and on a mass scale too unreflective until they break the power and hold of the harmony value.

    Women in Groups: Question Michael Turton 2009

  • It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • Virtually all failures, however, occur in the short fear-ridden periods comprising the downside of cycles.

    'The Impact Was Larger Than I Expected': 2008

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