Fraught Sentence Examples

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  • Romantic relationships with humans were fraught with difficulties.

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  • This ill-planned and hazardous enterprise was fraught with the elements of inevitable failure.

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  • My Council desire to represent that the methods now being adopted are fraught with grave public danger.

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  • Over the following years, the situation in the south grew increasingly fraught.

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  • Zach is also Kendall's husband and their relationship has often been fraught with tension.

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  • The newborn adoption process may seem fraught with legalities and possible heartbreak, but keep in mind that families successfully adopt newborns every day, and the rewards are well worth the problems and issues involved.

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  • The road to a successful adoption can be fraught with roadblocks and dead-ends, but once you've brought your child home, all of the frustration and confusion will disappear.

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  • Aspects of care for vulnerable adults remain fraught with legal uncertainty.

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  • From jealous rivals, to witch hunters or insane elders; the night is fraught with peril even for the undead.

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  • The public schools are already fraught with problems, and providing a downward extension to three- and four-year-olds is ill conceived.

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  • Importing tens of millions of foreign workers into a bloc already rife with racial tensions is also fraught with political difficulties.

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  • The chemiotaxis in this instance is positive, but the toxins from certain other bacteria may act negatively; and such bacteria are fraught with particular danger from the fact that they can spread through the body unopposed by the phagocytes, which may be looked upon as their natural enemies.

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  • Equity discussions are often fraught with peril-people can easily get bent out of shape if they feel they're not going to get their fair share.

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  • With nowhere to go, the humans turn their hopes to the mythical planet called Earth, but their journey is fraught with peril, which of course is what makes the series interesting.

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  • The statesmen of both dynastic parties, from the beginning of the regency, agreed to observe strict neutrality in European affairs, in order to avoid complications fraught with evil consequences for the monarchy and the dynasty in.

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  • And it is precisely these problems that make genetic engineering so fraught with danger.

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  • The process of defining rights through international conventions and laws has been long and politically fraught.

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  • His heart may be smitten with the love of the truth, and his mind be fully fraught with its arguments.

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  • Both situations are potentially fraught with the danger of contact not being made, breaking down or being inappropriate, even negative.

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  • Hence modeling accurate predictions, especially long-term ones, is either downright impossible or fraught with immense difficulties.

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  • But the other may regard it, as a little girl regards her doll, as an animated being, no mere picture, but as tenement and vehicle of the god and fraught with divine influence.

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  • So long as we felt his loving presence and knew that he took a watchful interest in our work, fraught with so many difficulties, we could not be discouraged.

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  • Be sure that you understand the schedule of fees prior to buying the card as a gift or you may wind up giving a card so fraught with fees that the recipient isn't able to fully enjoy the balance you preload onto the card.

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  • Going through girl puberty is a wonderful time of awe and discovery in a young girl's life, but it can also be fraught with tension, concern, and confusion.

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  • Planning a same sex wedding ceremony can be fraught with as much tension and difficulty as any other wedding.

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  • Engagement parties are usually thrown sometime during the first few months of the engagement, and the rules about engagement gifts can cause these events to be fraught with etiquette challenges.

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  • However, come 1991, fraught by a press backlash against indie-dance and a growing obsession for US grunge acts like Nirvana, Happy Mondays staged a half-arsed return to the charts with mediocre single 'Judge Fudge'.

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  • A vow or prayer formulated in or through a certain name was fraught with the prestige of him whose name it was.

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  • Beginning in post-Reconstruction, race relations became more fraught and this changed the fabric of costumes for people of color in Mardi Gras parades.

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  • There is typically a very strong attraction to Scorpio, but this pairing is often fraught with intense karmic undertones, and so it may be best for the two of you to steer clear of one another.

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  • Finding out your past life is an intriguing journey, but it can also be one fraught with unintended consequences.

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  • As this money was drawn from the channels of business and locked up in the public vaults, the president looked upon the condition as fraught with danger to the commercial community and he addressed himself to the task of reducing taxation.

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  • The Academy Awards ceremony - an emotionally fraught, " and the winner is.. .

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  • The beginning of the workshop was somewhat fraught - two speakers were stuck in a tunnel on the tube from Watford!

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  • At the end of a half in which Leeds had only been stretched for period of 2 minutes, things got rather fraught.

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  • From that moment the love affair becomes almost impossibly fraught.

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  • Parents like seamless socks too, both because they can make getting dressed so much less fraught and because they often are designed to not have heels, which means they are outgrown less quickly, thus saving money.

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  • What should be a celebration can soon become fraught with emotion if the expectations of all concerned are not managed.

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  • In other words, if your family history is fraught with debilitating medical conditions you are not going to be eligible for the lowest term life insurances.

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  • Why my - and our - quest seems so fraught is not clear.

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  • Seldom has it happened, since the discovery of the law of gravity, that so profound an impression has been made upon the scientific world at large as by the revelation of the part played by germ-life in nature; seldom has any discovery been fraught with such momentous issues in so many spheres of science and industry.

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  • His coronation as Roman emperor in 800, although it did not produce at the time so powerful an impression in Germany as in France, wa1 fraught with consequences not always favorable for the former country.

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  • The life of a Perfect was so hard, and, thanks to the inquisitors, so fraught with danger, that most Believers deferred the rite until the death-bed, as in the early centuries many believers deferred baptism.

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  • These, together with independent researches into the heat treatment of steel and iron, have opened up many unsolved problems fraught with deepest interest and importance.

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  • In 1856, the last year of his rule, he issued orders to General (afterwards Sir James) Outram, then resident at the court of Lucknow, to assume the direct administration of Oudh, on the ground that " the British government would be guilty in the sight of God and man, if it were any longer to aid in sustaining by its countenance an administration fraught with suffering to millions."

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  • It is obvious that wrongful admission into the "star" class might be fraught with mischievous consequences, and it is well known that a first sentence does not necessarily mean absolute unacquaintance with crime.

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  • In these circumstances the decision of the Liberal cabinet, however generous, was fraught with peril.

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  • More jurist than theologian, John defended the rights of the papacy with rigorous zeal and as rigorous logic. For the restoration of the papacy to its old independence, which had been so gravely compromised under his immediate predecessors, and for the execution of the vast enterprises which the papacy deemed useful for its prestige and for Christendom, considerable sums were required; and to raise the necessary money John burdened Christian Europe with new taxes and a complicated fiscal system, which was fraught with serious consequences.

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  • God the Father may not be depicted at all - a restriction intelligible when we remember that the image in theory is fraught with the virtue of the archetype; but everywhere the utmost timidity is shown.

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  • The affairs of Europe during the years when Habsburg and Bourbon fought their domestic battles with the blood of noble races may teach grave lessons to all thoughtful men of our days, but none bitterer, none fraught with more insulting recollections, than to the Italian people, who were haggled over like dumb driven cattle in the mart of chaffering kings.

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  • The few months that elapsed between the 18th of July 1870 and the 18th of January 1871 witnessed four events that have been fraught with more consequence to the papacy than anything else that had affected that institution for the past three centuries.

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  • The war of 1817-19 led to the first introduction of English settlers on a considerable scale, an event fraught with far-reaching consequences.

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  • The arrangement was fraught with danger to the public tranquillity, and one of the reforms of the last sovereign was the abolition of the office of "Chao Uparach and a decree that the throne should in future descend from the king to one of his sons born of a queen, which decree was immediately followed by the appointment of a crown prince.

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