mutual fear
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmutualandfear
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mutual
adjective
uk/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/us/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/
(of two or more people or groups) feeling the same emotion, or doing the same thing to or for ...
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fear
noun[C or U]
uk/fɪər/us/fɪr/
an unpleasant emotion or thought that you have when you are frightened or worried by something dangerous, painful, or bad that is happening or ...
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(Definition ofmutualandfearfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Instead, they clashed over the many unsolved problems of the post-war period, which was characterised bymutualfearof infringement of security zones by the opposing side.
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Because of that, suspicion developed, and, from that,mutualfearhas arisen.
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The present balance of forces, although it is precarious and is based onmutualfear, has held good through a number of dangerous years.
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One of the few ways in whichmutualfearcan be overcome is with acts of faith.
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It rests on each having hostages and on theirmutualfearof those hostages being oppressed.
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These mutual suspicions and so on have added to themutualfear, and have induced each side to try to become stronger than the other.
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There is certainly no doubt that the balance ofmutualfeardeters nuclear powers from going to war with one another.
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A web ofmutualfearsuffocates the world and smaller things get caught in it.
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In looking at what went wrong, we find faults and atrocities on both sides which have resulted inmutualfearand suspicion and a lack of trust.
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It is a conflict which thrives, first, onmutualfear, a fear which patient work on disarmament anddétentecan help to roll back.
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Therefore, this is amutualfearproblem.
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It can be no one's interest to make war now, but if war should come it will come frommutualfearand common hysteria among nations.
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We are thus defined by the mutual need and reliance upon each other, and themutualfearof each other in acceptance or rejection.
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They know that it will lead to violence—the exacerbation of mutual fears and perhaps mutual hatreds.
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Suspicions there are still very active; fears, mutual fears, in nearly every case are very alive.
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There are mutual fears and suspicions to be got rid of before a solution can be found.
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The two other views are that there is likely to be tension and conflict, and that there is a future of conflict because of mutual fears.
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