That distant muffled rumble lasted ten seconds, no more, until the tale went off the scale, lest it should be a bore.
So firms are reluctant to be the first to close a factory lest it should lead to lower market share, or to forgo investment in a growing market.
And lest any potential consumer should worry about grinding his teeth on food laced with the stuff, only one part in 1, 000 needs to be added to achieve protection.
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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But, an ASEAN diplomat sniffs, Indonesia should keep its own ambitions in check, lest the tables are turned in future.
As he saw it, the police should work to suppress all small crimes, lest decent folk lose confidence in the forces of law and order and cede the streets to ne'er-do-wells.
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Mr Ibarretxe insisted on copying the deal by hand and signing it that night, lest the Catalan nationalists, whose aid the government needed in the central parliament, should learn the terms and demand the same for their region, prompting the government to backslide.
Some jobs can and have to be run in parallel, but one person should probably not be doing more than one thing literally at the same time, lest quality suffer.
Mormons should be mere members, rather than the linchpin of the Protect Marriage coalition, some Mormons say, lest their primary goal of missionary evangelism be tainted.
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