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The Great Depression, of course, highly magnified middle America's focus on apprehensiveness and thus FDR needed only to pay lip service to "dynamic" capital.
These developmental factors are considered to contribute to the anxiety and apprehensiveness many students experience during transition, particularly for students who transition into a new and more complex social setting and who are already at risk of underachievement (Kingery et al.
In all these travels not only did I take in the sights--although I am not one who uncritically admires the palaces and castles and churches one can visit on such trips, given that I could never get rid of my apprehensiveness about how those got built in the first place, by a lot of serfs and otherwise oppressed folks in feudal systems--but often, actually rather spontaneously, offered to take pictures of those couples that hadn't a way to capture their memories on film together.
That Saturday we flew to Buffalo, rented a car, and with much apprehensiveness drove to Niagara-on-the-Lake.
It is at the highest risk that in the post-2014, USA endeavor to make invulnerable ingress of the military arsenals would appear as an increasing apprehensiveness and agitation both within Central Asia and with Russia.
While it's questionable whether (or to what degree) Wasabi possesses either the aforementioned disorder or its related personality disorder, scenes involving his neatness, attention to detail, adherence to rules and general apprehensiveness could be used to raise questions about obsessive-compulsive behaviours.
2014), in which student writers claimed to experience less apprehensiveness when blogging online.
26 Addition- ally, Watson CJ et al used a different questionnaire: Cattells 16 PF and concluded a significant relationship between denture dissatisfaction emotional instability, depression, and apprehensiveness.
Family ties and those on whom one intimately depends are depicted as potential sources of evil, generating apprehensiveness.
Apprehensiveness about the consequences of too much permissiveness conjured up visions of the unruly child wreaking havoc within the home, and anxiety about the effects on the child of strict authoritarianism was embodied in the figure of the tyrannical parent who might pervert or scar vulnerable young psyches.
Souter said the ordinance was permissible because begging can create "serious apprehensiveness, real or apparent coercion, physical offense or even danger.
If there is talk now of rising tensions in East Asia and a growing apprehensiveness, then usually it is China which is seen as responsible.