It feels unsafe to us to put our fate (even just our professional fate) in the hands of someone who makes superficial, biased, or self-promoting judgments.
Figuring out what makes up dark matter is a big prize because it is the key to understanding the shape, size and even the fate of the universe.
But they also know that their best chance of averting an even worse fate for them lies in enacting something like the cuts that Mr Brown has proposed, and then persuading voters to extend the taxes.
Even if the fate of Christians in the Islamic world were far worse, that would not be a reason for the West to mistreat Muslims.
Some may even relish the fate of the original Damian, a third century saint who was hung on a cross, stoned and shot by arrows and finally suffered execution by beheading.
The United Nations as world peacekeeper has met that fate, even though statesmen will pretend otherwise.
The Obama Energy Department rewarded it by thereafter giving the floundering company millions more taxpayer dollars even though its ultimate fate was by then readily apparent.
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Will BlackBerry 10 help RIM avoid the fate of an even smaller market share and eventual buyout?
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Often in business and life, an important conversation, a made or missed connection, or even an intrusion of pure fate redirects our thinking and actions for years afterward.
Many teams grind their teeth over questions about their next game as they pay homage to the gods of cliche and avoid even the slightest temptation of fate.
Even for those who escape this fate, medical treatment has often made death more prolonged and more painful.
With prices falling due to digital distribution for movies, music, even books, is the same fate in store for games?
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Slavic indifference and obedience to fate will probably trump even social media.
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That's a far-out goal, given that Fate Therapeutics hasn't even selected a chief executive.
Even as they mull Saddam's fate, world leaders have turned their attention again to the future of Iraq.
But they can be matched with a general sort of animal, and thus act as an indicator of the fate of that group, even when there are no bones to tell the story.
This doesn't faze Roxanne Austin--who may not even have a job once DirecTV's fate is set.
The losers from globalisation triggered a political backlash against it, even before the first world war sealed its fate.
How can every pundit on Cable TV talk endlessly about the fate of the dollar without ever even mentioning the balance of payments?
Even assuming all these difficulties are resolved, the fate of the euro will remain uncertain.
All this suggests that health care itself may not prove decisive at November's elections, even as that vote itself may end up determining the fate of health reform.
So even if Miss Hindley has her original tariff restored, her fate still lies in Mr Straw's hands.
For all of its arrogance, Enron is hardly likely to share that fate: but hubris can lead to nemesis, even so.
It is, indeed, more stressful to be at the bottom than the top, even if being at the top involves making decisions on the fate of nations.
Unfortunately, no victory big or small will save Sofia and her peers from their fate: Scientists who have studied the area say even if spraying stopped completely today, it would take a few generations to decontaminate the water and soil, and for any lingering health impacts to fade away.
"When I think about the fate of my relatives back home, I am not even able to cook for my children here, " says Lakshmi.
Two prominent New York pollsters said in an Associated Press report that even if Sharpton never won office, he has gained enough standing to influence the fate of others.
In an interview, he reveals for the first time that he has even written a letter to the Disney board, recommending a successor should some bad fate befall Eisner himself.
If that were to happen, they argue, he could be tortured or killed by Pakistan's secret services, even though the British courts have taken steps to protect the suspect from such a fate.
But the usual fate of such ideas is that they die once the emergency passes, or are ignored even if they survive the journey from proposal to policy.
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