Examples of apprehension

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In turn, the existence of such a group generated understandable apprehensions among those wishing to limit royal power.
Having "enfranchis'd, enlarg'd, and lifted up our apprehensions above themselves," the progress of popular enlightenment thus created a sense of gigantic potential.
Apart from apprehensions related to the physician- patient relationship, other barriers were mentioned as well.
Here first contests were held, while affinities and different apprehensions between these bodies or between parts of them came to the surface.
Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of everyday life.
One advantage of collecting data in this way is that thoughts and apprehensions can be expressed in the freedom of anonymity.
Crime rates and popular apprehensions would rise together in the early 1840s, opening the way for another portentous experiment in local policing.
At no time, however, did apprehensions arise that one or other defect could endanger the internal cohesiveness and thus the existence of this state organism.
Once the patients recovered, the doctor gave them "a cheerful glass" and joined them in a dance in order "to dissipate their apprehensions still further".
Despite his expressed apprehensions, he voted for ratification.
There appears to be a difference between the aspirations and apprehensions of students entering the college and the factors that shape their development over their first term.
In doing so, he expands the idea, suggesting that there can be affectively toned existential apprehensions of the world which then can be elaborated in metaphysical terms.
Indeed, when talking about their apprehensions about academic work at this time, the students mention some subjects where feedback is not scheduled until later in the course.
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