Sentence examples for danger of throwing the from inspiring English sources

The government is in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

"I think there's a danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater – of thinking 'this works, so let's make it big'," he says.

But the roundtable heard that the government is in danger of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" by dismantling some of the systems that have worked.

The result is to force people such as me into a rabidly "Europhile" position because, when there is a danger of throwing the baby out with the bath water, one's instinct is to protect the baby with all vigour and ferocity.

"We're in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater". De Botton argues that the decline of religious faith has left behind a real and widespread need for wisdom and insight; the media offers only a "cruel sentimentality" and gives little space to the most difficult of our life experiences, such as failure, death or envy, nor does it offer ways to deal with them.

When he came to the crease, England were in danger of throwing the game away.

Either that or Bayern have just realised they're in danger of throwing this one away, having dominated for 75 minutes.

I don't know what exactly caused the change, but I suddenly realised that I was in danger of throwing away the opportunity I had – the best opportunity I ever would have – to make a life with the beautiful, strong, intelligent woman I loved.

The home side were in real danger of throwing away victory in the closing stages when the visitors developed a promising attacking platform.

With the Republican candidate, Rob Astorino, way behind in the polls, there was no real danger of throwing November's race to the G.O.P. Why not stick it to the governor?

The editors I have worked with, most recently Anthony and Karen Hayes at Professional and Higher (the former of whom has also written recently about the dangers of throwing out the publishers with the bathwater) always challenged me to take my writing to the next level, asking all the right questions, probing further and deeper in ways I couldn't see myself because I was too close to the work.