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.
In the uncertainty before the parliamentary election on February 18th, the ruling mullahs worry lest the job of parliamentary speaker should fall to some untested candidate.
But in Saudi Arabia, the idea of Muslim girls playing sports is a radical concept in Saudi Arabia, where a conservative interpretation of Islam means women should not exercise, lest they, as one cleric put it in 2009, risk losing their virginity by tearing their hymens.
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Now, lest my observations here be misinterpreted, I should hasten to add that Internet-style communications like IRC chat really have changed the way we conduct war.
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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The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty.
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But, an ASEAN diplomat sniffs, Indonesia should keep its own ambitions in check, lest the tables are turned in future.
But Dutch homosexuals should be discouraged from seeking babies abroad, lest Dutch heterosexuals be kept out of world baby-buying markets by suspicious foreigners.
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.
Microsoft, in its usual grinch spirit, uses this birthday as another occasion to remind us that businesses should make the move to Windows 7 today, lest they still be using XP when support ends on April 8, 2014.
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In each of these cases, the White House argued that Mr Clinton's entourage should be immune from Mr Starr's subpoenas, lest their service to the president be impeded by the knowledge that they might later be compelled to testify against him.
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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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.
For this reason among others, we should resist as long as possible resort to military means against the Iranian regime, lest we drive even a public who hates the radical, politicized mullahs into their arms.
Lest anyone think we exaggerate the danger to American military personnel being hauled before the ICC on legally specious grounds should take into account Judge Garzon's penchant for upending the presumption of innocence - the very core of American jurisprudence.
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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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