• It's in enough magazines that the greatest fear - over the fear of death - is the fear of public speaking.

    NPR: Carly Simon's 'Never Been Gone'

  • The idea that materialism "can cure men of the fear of God and the fear of death, " as Dr. Kass puts it, is at least as old as ancient Greece.

    WSJ: Leon Kass: The Meaning of the Gosnell Trial

  • She keeps sensibly quiet about where she lives, but she can travel and shop without the constant fear of death.

    ECONOMIST: Going to America

  • As Blanche, mezzo Isabel Leonard sounded vibrant, even if she didn't always capture the vulnerability of the young postulant who struggles with her fear of death.

    WSJ: Review: Stirring revival of Poulenc opera at Met

  • First, it is nearly always rooted in the experience of death and the fear of extinction.

    NPR: Karen Armstrong: Myths and the Modern World

  • But I know many brave people go to the streets without fear of death.

    BBC: Iranian views: tension rising

  • Mackinder saw history being made on the Northwest frontier of India, but the Empire bled to death on the fields of France in fear of what might happen elsewhere, and by the time it got to India it handed over that frontier, out of exhaustion and a growing reluctance to fight for a possession that did not want to be possessed.

    NEWYORKER: Faces, Places, Spaces

  • The play poignantly describes the changes to everyday life in Iraq since the invasion: the reluctance to leave the house, the stench of death on the streets and the heartstopping fear of another car bomb attack in the city.

    BBC: Review: Girl Blog from Iraq

  • Many Kandaharis fear that the death of Hakim Jan will clear the way for the Taliban to move into his district near Kandahar, giving militants easier access to targets in Afghanistan's second largest city.

    NPR: Taliban Denies Part in Kandahar Bombing

  • It said those suspected of masterminding the September 11 plane hijack attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in which more than 5, 5000 people are feared dead should be sent to a fair trial without fear of the death penalty.

    CNN: Amnesty appeals to warring sides

  • In entirely too many cases, the answer is fear not of physical death, but instead fear of our financial demise, which is often rooted in a fear of lifestyle reduction, which is often rooted in a fear of relative lifestyle comparison with our peers, which is especially ironic when you consider the millions of unemployed workers, bankrupt households, foreclosed homes and underwater homeowners.

    FORBES: Steve Job's Financial Planning Advice: You Are Already Naked

  • This is not the bold, humorless laugh of the triumphant atheist, who conquers what he calls death and his own fear of it.

    NEWYORKER: Dead Man Laughing

  • Lord Justice Leveson, sepulchral in tone, has delivered conclusions that could, or so many fear, become the death knell of a free press.

    BBC: Leveson report: Media reaction

  • But the transition had not been completed and analysts fear Mr Kim's death could trigger a period of instability in the internationally isolated nuclear-armed state.

    BBC: Kim Jong-il death: US urges 'path of peace'

  • The start of the Black Death in 1348 will be the setting against which to explore fear, faith, economic ravagement and the imposition of political power.

    ECONOMIST: Writers in profile

  • Florida law allows the use of deadly force anywhere a person feels a reasonable fear of death or serious injury.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • But, despite the mounting death toll, he has lost the weapon of fear.

    CNN: Why the Syrian regime is killing babies

  • Senate leaders fear that path is a recipe for a slow death for the idea of comprehensive change, allowing for interest groups to cherry-pick the changes of most value to them while leaving other pieces behind.

    WSJ: Ryan Takes a Key Role on Immigration

  • The death of so many young women is a constant source of fear.

    BBC

  • Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

    WSJ: Steve Jobs: 'Find What You Love'

  • Nicholas Conning, 45, denies causing the death of a Jennifer Findlay by placing her in a state of fear and alarm at a property in Elders Court on 12 June 2012.

    BBC: Man on trial over woman's fall from Dundee high rise

  • Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

    CNN: How to live, and die, like Steve Jobs

  • Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

    FORBES: Steve Job's Financial Planning Advice: You Are Already Naked

  • Jim Hoefler, of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, who is the author of a recent book on death in America, notes that boomers have a fear their parents never knew: that an impersonal health-care system may hook them up to an array of beeping machines rather than admit failure.

    ECONOMIST: Doctor-assisted suicide

  • To dispel her fear, he grinned ingratiatingly at her it was the exaggerated death-mask grin of a person not used to grovelling then he looked around to figure out where he had left the table.

    NEWYORKER: The Elephant

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