Companies are often tempted to appease these groups lest they suffer harmful publicity or hostile regulation.
Most growers stop at 10 lights lest they attract attention with a steep electricity bill.
So, for now, no one dares criticise Mr Blair too sharply, lest they too are lynched.
Even the more moderate politicians have been forced to go along with this trend lest they be marginalized.
Bearers of good news are often advised to keep their mouths shut, lest they lull people into complacency.
In return, software employees are barred from seeing prototype handhelds lest they leak details to Sony, Handspring and others.
These are provided by banks desperate to prevent debt-ridden firms from closing lest they drag the banks down too.
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Grey firms tend to be small and want to stay that way lest they come to the attention of the authorities.
Airlines have been reluctant to merge lest they be forced to give up precious transatlantic landing rights at their home airport.
In some neighborhoods boarded-up houses and empty lots island the remaining inhabited homes, which shrink behind spreading foliage lest they be next.
It recommends that executives exude as much confidence and authority as they can muster, lest they "die" as a performer might onstage.
Others often have to refuse swag, lest they end up breaking contractual obligations by promoting a brand competing with one they're endorsing.
But EU leaders might still prefer to let the corruption cases run their course before admitting Croatia, lest they implicate more high-level figures.
Samsung should be very wary of slowing down their marketing spend, lest they damage one of the key strategic strengths of the Galaxy range.
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The Obama Administration seems to have resisted panicky calls on Capitol Hill to stop the Predator strikes lest they inflame public opinion in Pakistan.
They can expect those who raised the money to work their asses off to deliver on their promises, lest they be branded scam artists.
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Foreign carmakers are reluctant to make too much of a fuss, lest they be excluded from a fast-growing market or generate unwelcome negative publicity.
Currently access to the FBI's background check system is limited to licensed firearms dealers, who have an incentive not to abuse it lest they lose their license.
Lest they fail, America needs a broader range of deterrents.
But investors also need to look at where that money is going, lest they find themselves married to an Amazon-like company of fat top lines and ever-thin bottom ones.
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Mideast banks that have relationships with U.S. banks were hesitant to release money to the Palestinian Authority, lest they find themselves in the crosshairs of U.S. antiterrorism finance laws.
As a result, web developers triangulate, attempting to build the best features they can based on the lowest common denominator lest they give up incremental market share (aka, revenue).
But Rodriguez is adamant that he acted legally and says his motive in ordering their destruction was to protect the identities of his CIA interrogators lest they suffer reprisals.
He advised against appointing cabinet secretaries too early, lest they wander off-message on their own, and reminded the president that everything he said would now be taken very seriously.
But the Iraqi Islamic Party, another Sunni group that has joined Mr Allawi's government while criticising many of its policies, has urged its co-religionists to vote lest they be marginalised.
His other judgments have the ring of hindsight, especially the prescription that Conservatives should oppose complex innovative financial arrangements lest they turn out to be dangerous to national economic well-being.
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While employers' 401(k) plans are subject to punitive regulations, lest they allow you to take on too much "risk, " employers are allowed to offer their own stock among the investment options.
One of those helping, 40-year-old Qurban Ali, was instructing young people to be patient and careful while removing the rubble, lest they hurt themselves or survivors still buried in the debris.
Naturally, I opined that a taxpayer would be foolish not to make this election, lest they be forced to include more gain in net investment income than necessary in future years.
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