He asked that his name not be published for fear of losing contracts and benefits.
Democratic Hispanic legislators oppose separating them for fear of losing business support for comprehensive reform.
Churches cannot officially endorse a candidate, for fear of losing their tax-exempt status.
Britain's government refuses to adjust its course for fear of losing markets' confidence.
Such deliberate scorchings are a routine part of forest management, but foresters use them sparingly, for fear of losing control.
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Many smaller contractors prefer to turn a blind eye for fear of losing workers in such a tight labour market.
By hardening its position, the Greek government risks driving museums everywhere into clinging to their possessions for fear of losing them.
There is inherent pressure on the sports side to show up, for fear of losing out to the kids who did.
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In fact, leading cloud services like Amazon may resist a standard for fear of losing their proprietary lock on early customers.
When this is the case they will not want to look too carefully at results for fear of losing their credits.
Unwilling to divorce for fear of losing her children, the entrepreneur began paying her husband for his permission to travel, said Alkhaled.
He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of losing his job.
"Publius", blogging at Obsidian Wings, advises the left to choose its battles carefully, for fear of losing the entire healthcare reform bill.
They're all dismissible offences, but there's no clarification on what they can do or not do to the public for fear of losing their job.
One is a sort of pathological conservatism, where people forgo even feasible things with potentially large benefits for fear of losing the little they already possess.
The FDA may be learning not to sit on data too long, for fear of losing control of the public debate about the safety and efficacy of particular drugs.
But that will never happen when one side expects the other to make all the sacrifices and both sides refuse to acknowledge tough decisions for fear of losing votes.
When crude oil prices go up, as they have recently, retailers try not to raise their prices too quickly for fear of losing customers, which pinches profits (or result in losses).
Especially since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, in which the International Monetary Fund demanded high interest rates to bail out banks, developing countries have stocked up on reserves for fear of losing their national economic sovereignty.
Two factors may be to blame: producers of AuM estimates may be reluctant to share methodologies behind the estimates and media reporters may be reluctant to question a source for fear of losing access to information.
Christian converts, most of whom are born as dalits at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, often hide their new faith for fear of losing their rights to state jobs and university places kept for the lower castes.
This is the moment when the Lords' power is at its greatest, when brinkmanship by the Opposition or rebel groups can force ministers into concessions, for fear of losing an entire piece of legislation because it's not agreed as the session ends.
An engineer for a major U.S. automaker, speaking only on condition of anonymity for fear of losing his job, said he has watched for years as his company failed to implement more advanced safety features in Brazil, simply because the law did not require them.
So the company dug in its heels for fear of also losing the very Christian groups at whose behest it acted in the first place.
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The conditional is required for fear of ridicule and losing credibility.
Nobody opposes it for fear of the dollar losing its pre-eminence.
Most people are afraid to draw the hard lines in the sand for fear of angering a friend or losing a potential client or opportunity.
Most have become mouthpieces for company management, refusing to make statements based on independent research for fear of offending the company and losing future investment-banking business.
And something that I'm especially proud of that we just talked about at the table, the President worked with the Congress to extend the Family and Medical Leave Act to all our military families and to caregivers of our wounded warriors, because just like other Americans, our military spouses need to care for their loved ones without fear of losing their jobs.
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Scottish financial firms, for example, have found that fear of losing a place on the London property ladder deters some professionals from moving north of the border, though this is now less of a problem since a recent boom in Edinburgh house prices.
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