31.   The land-use lawyer for the New Jersey League of Municipalities, Stuart Koenig, said local governments feared that a mandatory plan would lead to unreasonable costs.

32.   The Macedonian government fears its fragile coalition could collapse if the refugee crisis worsens, as it likely will.

33.   The Israeli government has feared that pictures of the dead will be used by Palestinians to make claims of a massacre.

34.   The nation was at war, and the government feared that a network of immigrant terrorists was planning havoc on the home front.

35.   The Reynolds purchase was blocked only because the government feared Alcoa would close a plant amid an oversupply of aluminum sheet for beverage cans, they said.

36.   The report noted that some governments feared that lowering financial services barriers would have economic and financial sector implications, including possibly lower profits for domestic firms.

37.   The Rwandan government fears that soldiers of the former regime are preparing to restart the civil war from refugee camps and bases in Zaire.

38.   The South Korean government fears that another major bankruptcy could lead to a chain of bankruptcies among small businesses.

39.   The U.S. government fears that a military conflict would not only risk a nuclear conflagration but also gravely complicate its efforts to capture members of Al Qaida in Pakistan.

40.   The Uzbek government fears the effects that a fundamentalist Afghanistan might have in this former Soviet republic.