be apprehensive of
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In recusal questions, he said longstanding judicial ethics guidelines state a judge "should not be swayed by partisan demands, public clamor or considerations of personal popularity or notoriety, nor be apprehensive of unjust criticism."
From Reuters ● Dec. 31, 2011
"No one need be apprehensive of suffering by faults of this kind."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
No good Greek artist would have you behold the suffering, either of gods, heroes, or men; nor allow you to be apprehensive of the issue of their contest with evil beasts, or evil spirits.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin
I would be apprehensive of submitting the absolute determination of the question to an official tribunal for the reasons, among others, which I have mentioned above.
From My Attainment of the Pole by Frederick A. Cook
He was entrusted by Nero with the government of Spain, before Nero had yet learned to be apprehensive of men of great repute.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
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