(p. a.) Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Don't be afraid of being pigeonholed - it's great to have a niche.
(2) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
(3) Clarke varies the intensity of sessions but for most of the time it's go hard or go home: I've learned that neither more pain nor being sick are anything to be afraid of.
(4) "Don't be afraid to talk and ask questions, even with your teachers around.
(5) The Federal Penal Service rejected a request from Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova to serve their remaining time in Moscow; given the high profile nature of their case, they are afraid for their safety in the communal environment of a correctional colony.
(6) What I saw Aid workers speak out about mental health: 'I was afraid they would think I couldn't handle it' Read more The first place I visited was Nyamirambo, a neighbourhood in the south-west part of Kigali.
(7) The uniformed man who faced them was young and afraid.
(8) I want to raise awareness about the number of people who now feel afraid on our streets and map areas where people at risk can feel safest,” said the site’s founder, Hanna Thomas.
(9) Co-operatives should not be afraid to champion radical causes, or engage with controversial issues, but this must not involve affronting customers, or turning our backs on good people of different political persuasions.
(10) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(11) If you, too, are feeling down about the fight ahead, don’t be afraid to ask your elders for guidance.
(12) Women with later menarche attached less importance to sex, were more afraid of labour pains and thought less of labour preparation courses.
(13) So, if the Fed is afraid that the fiscal cliff may cause a disruption so big that even the Fed's all-encompassing embrace of the markets can't fix it, then it's Chairman Bernanke's word – and not that of Congress – that carries the most weight.
(14) Subjects who stated that they were not afraid of methadone, frequently injected drugs, and rarely used crack were more likely to express intentions to enroll and remain in community methadone treatment.
(15) The drug pipeline is going to be slow, I’m afraid,” the CDC director, Tom Frieden, told NBC’s Meet the Press.
(16) I was afraid of getting lost, but did not lose myself even once.
(17) On our own, we're quietly afraid that nobody remembers us for the right reasons.
(18) I suppose he was afraid he might be there for the rest of his life.
(19) I went inside, and the sound of the rain on the roof and the darkness inside made me very afraid.
(20) "If we are afraid of the religious impact, we need to work from now to help in the revolution, to be able, after, to rebuild."
Precaution
Definition:
(n.) Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution.
(n.) A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act; as, to take precautions against accident.
(v. t.) To warn or caution beforehand.
(v. t.) To take precaution against.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper details the circumstances of some of the cases and cites precautions to be taken in the use of this therapeutic mode.
(2) Both methods appear useful at routine neurological examination if certain measuring precautions are taken.
(3) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
(4) Indications of precautions to be taken are defined and suggestions are drawn up whereby residual laxity in extension may be limited.
(5) An anonymous survey was conducted in order to examine compliance with universal precautions in the Department of Pediatrics at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois.
(6) Because flow and velocity are related, it is possible to estimate flow from velocity measurements with careful calibration and proper precautions.
(7) The precautions in the interpretation, the interest and the sensitiveness of the electroimmunodiffusion techniques are exposed.
(8) When the identification of these categories of patient would be particularly difficult, the precautions should be applied to all patients, in situations of high risk for inoculation incidents.
(9) In this paper, these and related facts were summarized and some precautions were suggested to lessen the increase of resistant strains in this country.
(10) Careful review of the indications for examination, previous radiographs, and clinical history will identify many of the patients at greater risk for complications so that appropriate precautions may be observed.
(11) It allows pieces of bone from cadavers to be harvested several hours after death, without special aseptic precautions.
(12) It is emphasized that the effective use of protective equipment must go hand in hand with safe handling precautions and the adoption of good personal hygiene.
(13) The notable fact was that this complication occurred in three patients hospitalized before treatment began, with whom particularly strict therapeutic precautions were taken, i.e., initial dose less than 10 mg of DEC, very gradual dose increases, and associated anti-allergic treatment.
(14) The recent wave of attacks has put the city in the grip of a toxic anxiety, with parents keeping children away from school, restaurants and public places empty and residents taking a variety of precautions not seen since the height of the second intifada.
(15) Precautions such as avoidance and the possession (and use) of epinephrine can decrease the incidence and severity of such reactions.
(16) lymphnodes and even eyes of patients with HIV-Infection, but requires precaution and control with respect to contamination.
(17) The recommended breach of confidentiality applies only to cases that meet all of the following criteria: (1) A patient knows that he or she has a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive blood test and has been informed of AIDS-related safety precautions, (2) the HIV-positive patient has a mental disorder, and (3) it is reasonable to believe that the mental disorder has significantly impaired or may significantly impair the patient's ability and behavior to follow AIDS-related safety precautions.
(18) The following article details the established control measures, and emphasizes the importance of implementing a permanent program which includes serological screening, policies for disinfection of machines, dialyzers, and environmental surfaces inside the unit, as well as general precautions for blood and other body fluids.
(19) The state of immunity against tetanus of these patients was found to be extremely low, only 9% being fully immunized, and 56% having never received a course of prophylactic adsorbed tetanus toxoid.While prevention is obviously the only real solution to accidents of any nature, legislation is not enough to achieve this, and the final responsibility lies with the farmworker to ensure that all safety precautions are followed.
(20) An asymmetrical approach had to be adopted in almost any case to accomodate to the precautions required in the surgical treatment of the anomaly as well as to the demands on fracture management.