Sentences with phrase «irrational fear for»

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For example, in the bear market environment of the early 1970s, countless people were apoplectic over an irrational fear that ITT (the International Telephone and Telegraph company), which had begun a program of taking over smaller companies, would take over the world.

But it takes religion to make people have irrational fears and hate for other groups of people when they probably wouldn't have those feelings in the first place.

@Sam, I think it's dumbfounding for me because I was raised around people of all backgrounds my entire life and I guess I was just ignorant to some of the irrational or unfounded fears that people could have of another.

Indeed, this widespread and largely irrational fear has become a second epidemic — one that must also be addressed by pastors concerned for people's spiritual health.

Some anthropologists do respect distinctly religious ideas such as holiness and life - after - death, but many still try to explain religion away as no more than a shared «language» for expressing social patterns, calming irrational fears or marking men as somehow different from animals.

Both are irrational... religion, which is force fed to Americans from childhood, creates the mental / emotional conditions for other irrationalities like fear and hatred of people who are different in some way.

They can not stop for a moment and clearly examine the bigotry arising from their irrational fear of someone different than themselves.

Speaking about the decision to tackle his fear of heights for the stunt, Dr John added: «Isn't it a fairly irrational fear in a way because you know that everything that is around about you is going to hold you.

I hope we will have the courage and faith to turn away from irrational fear, panic and the temptation to place personal security above compassionate care for the marginalized and ravaged.

but because you're too cowardly to say that publicly for fear of the social stigma from your peers and parents, you're going to force them into a lifetime of irrational guilt as well.

:) Haha, I never liked oatmeal cookies either (because... irrational fear of raisins) so thank you for doing it right with some big ol' chocolate chunks!

It was the fear that there was no other life for me beyond the one that I had grown up in, the irrational belief that what being poor makes you feel is actually what you are.

«Today the reasons given for circumcision have been updated to play on contemporary fears and anxieties; but one day they, too, will be considered irrational.

«This worry has become irrational to the point that they are afraid to engage in normal activities for fear of further brain damage, even when it is clear to us that they have recovered.

Fear isn't just some unnecessary, irrational feeling for which humans have no real need.»

(I will admit to an irrational level of fear about the shots required for this trip... so much that my nine year - old daughter patted my arm and said «Don't worry.

Although the venture was initially successful — he broke even in four months instead of the usual two years — he became gripped by an irrational fear that he might not be able to provide for a future family.

I've been indoctrinated with researchers» mind, culture, and philosophy for so long, I have this irrational fear that I might not be capable / worthy of some other job that I might try to do.

«What this research shows is that the fear about flashes being «extremely harmful» for works of art is irrational,» says Saunders.

A strange, irrational fear that had been chewing at my mind for as long as I could remember.

For example, I've never felt the urge to keep every item on my desk in perfect symmetry, and I have no irrational fears that myself or a loved one are in imminent danger of some horrific accident.

In another decidedly ignorant move, CSPI fell in lock - step with the biotech industry for profit with the announcement that «fear» of GMOs is «irrational» and that GMO foods are «safe to eat.»

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It's a thriller for people whose irrational anxiety about technology is only matched by their overriding fear of other people.

Yet at the same time, this new film is too concerned with being level - headed and realistic, to properly restore the sense of irrational, overwhelming and primal fear that is at the core of the story and which constitutes the true basis of identity for each of the characters.

The documentary film The War on Kids argues that public schools have become overly restrictive and ineffective due in part to an irrational fear of young peoples potential for violence.

Though she knew it was irrational, she couldn't still the fear that just outside those beams something huge and solid — a stalled semi, a mountain — waited for them to slam into at full force.

The same goes for the fear, however irrational, of a cataclysmic car accident.

For centuries, black cats have taken a bad rap thanks to Europe's irrational fear of witches.

Some degree of fear is rather normal given the way humans approach risk, particularly with something like the risks from radiation, and particularly given inherent trust that comes from for - profit overlay onto the «common good» and (IMO) laying that fear exclusively at the feet of environmentalists, or simply labeling it as irrational, is more a product of ideologically - driven identity - protective cognition and tribalism on the part of nuclear proponents than a useful ingredient for making progress on energy policy development.

When requests for reducing CO2 emissions surfaced, I thought everything will be easily solved by employing nuclear power (later I learned it was not realistic)-- but to my surprise, the very same groups opposing CO2 emissions and promoting wind and solar were opposing nuclear power and building irrational fears of it.

But there is good news for the Catholic masses: you can now also comfortably ignore this encyclical since it was produced from the irrational passion of fear versus the known rational, empirical climate science.

The ONLY reason for its use offered by BIG GOVERNMENT is the irrational fear of a dearth of fossil fuel.

People are just incapable of appreciating know how much good an influx, within a year, of two million migrants will do for them, because of their irrational xenophobic fears.

A bit of radiation does you good, certainly no har, up to 400 tims theevcuation evels that we can prove epidemiologically, but irrational fear and old hypothese that are just wrong keeps disproven beliefs as the basis for regulation and officials in hazmat suits waving meters where in radiation levels people all around the world live out normal lives in.

This matters because the climate change debate has been hi - jacked, emissions made worse by the net effects of renewables for a fast lobbyist buck in fact, driven by ignorance and misleading attacks that lump clean low carbon gas with dirty high carbon coal, and old school anti-nuclear activists who oppose nuclear generation on factualy spurious grounds, while it is in physics and engineering fact by far the best solution on any measure, through promoting irrational fear unsupported in any area of the facts and proven physics they deceive the unknowing about with simply false or msleading «sience».

Due to an irrational fear she had of the defendants, as SOA 2003, s 30 (2) provides that an offence is committed if the complainant «lacks the capacity to choose whether to agree to the touching (whether because he lacks sufficient understanding of the nature or forseeable consequences of what is being done, or for any other reason)».

CBT has been helpful for those suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anger issues, high anxiety, irrational fears and a number of other traits.

I also provide relief for symptoms including constant worry, racing thoughts, nervousness, irrational fears, social anxiety, and panic attacks.

In Russia, it is now illegal for same - sex couples to hold hands and doing so can lead to imprisonment and hefty fines.5 In Nigeria, same - sex couples holding hands can face up to 10 years in prison6 and in Uganda, similar displays of affection could lead to legal execution if a controversial bill is passed that allows «aggravated homosexuality» to be punished by death.7 Even without the risk of these extreme legal penalties, many same - sex couples avoid holding hands because they fear the potential repercussions from doing so in front of the wrong person at the wrong time.8 Such fears are not irrational.

Children of divorce, for example, may be more likely to have an irrational fear of infidelity or abandonment.

The Court noted that a cause of action for stigmatized property must be clearly defined to protect the stability of contracts and prevent limitless recovery for insubstantial harms and irrational fears.