Sentences with phrase «on fear of being punished»

It's based on fear of being punished for not following something that doesn't make sense.

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WASHINGTON — White House officials moved quickly on Wednesday to calm fears of a potential trade war with China, saying the administration's proposed tariffs were a «threat» that would ultimately help, not hurt, the United States economy, hours after China said it would punish American products with similar levies.

In fact, our very notion of a devil — that there is a power that can compete with God — is rooted in such fear as is our notion of a God who rewards, punishes and judges based on what we have done.

While Republicans have been bracing for months for a punishing election in November, they are increasingly alarmed that their losses may be even worse than feared because the midterm campaign appears destined to turn more on the behavior of the man in the White House than any other in decades.

As he punishes himself emotionally for not being able to get over his fears and make her happy in the way he desires, CIA agent Victoria Lasseter (Connie Britton) discovers that a death order has been put out on the participants of a top secret program she ran which trained elite assassins.

im currently in a school doing extra sixth lessons and im actually finding it detrimental to my learning giving me more work homework time and my mock results are down from my last year many schools do less school and achieve much higher pass rates i fell that this extra time is making students feel worse and limits there ability to socialize when they go to school until 4:10 pm and arrive home at about 5 making it dark in the winter while walking home may i add it also means that when we get home are daily 2 hr of hw leaves us being at home with no extra work at about 7 pm on top of this there is revision for exams and catch up work for students to complete all of this removes a students ability to have fun were we are hunting success in fear of punishment To conclude extra lessons punish the mind and form a generation of students that dislike school and even sometimes even become suicidal all because schools think they are doing things right

Moore writes in «Great Tide» that we're in an «all hands on deck» crisis, yet most scientists have been «down in the hold, muzzled by the vague but real fear that if they speak out, they will be punished for «advocacy,» the cardinal sin of science.»