Tanya Kersey-Henley, the festival's director, said the decision was made in part because organizers feared that that conflict would discourage filmmakers from attending.

Explosives Shunned Explosives are generally used for burial of derelict ships, but the organizers here feared that a blast would leave metal shards hazardous to divers.

Some organizers fear voters' interest is strained, because about two dozen other debates were held before the election year began.

It was turned down because the organizers feared that it would pit one ethnic group against another.

He had had word after Flora MacDonald's barbecue that the initial meeting place and time were to be abandoned, the organizers fearing interference.

The Winter Games were a celebration, and now the organizers fear the volunteer workers will become depressed because the excitement is gone.

Doona's long winter would arrive within two months, but there was no early chill which the organizers feared might mar the celebration.

By 1990, however, Lockenhaus had grown to dangerously grandiose proportions, or so its organizers feared.

In the apartheid "homelands" of Bophuthatswana and KwaZulu, political activists and organizers fear for their lives.

But organizers feared a poor turnout, and most were canceled.