Sentence examples for fear of destroying from inspiring English sources

In fact, almost no multinational would consider ranking its staff and subsidiaries this way for fear of destroying morale.

If people just saw the way we live, the ins and outs of our daily routine, they would get over all this fear of destroying the marriage.

Mr. Simmons would never have dreamed of declaring himself gay during the four seasons he played for the New York Giants and the Redskins, for fear of destroying his career.

Before Haber built IRENE, an archeophonist could choose only between not playing a fragile cylinder, for fear of destroying it, and playing it in order to convert it to a digital form and then accepting the possibility that the original would be ruined.

Any debate about the restoration of a great work of art, such as you report in "Restoration of a Leonardo Is Ruled Out: Expert Calls 'Adoration' Too Fragile to Repair" (Arts Abroad, Feb. 5), is overhung by the fear of destroying a treasured object to replace it by an artistic speculation.

They are a small, but increasingly influential group of culinary zealots (mostly in California, of course, but traveling a lot and proselytizing along the way), who have become so extreme in their vegetarianism that they refuse to eat food touched by heat -- for fear of destroying the nutrients.

But then she learned that, because of the severity of the problem, known as seam slippage, no local shops would touch the dresses for fear of completely destroying them.

Only if consumers order the study will they discover that the researcher herself now questions the vaccine's use, fearing that the risk of destroying the very thing she had meant to protect is unacceptably high.

What faces America may not be a death, but it's not an overstatement to say that people on both the left and the right fear that Trump is capable of destroying our democracy.

"Now, we either go step by step into the future or let fear of failure destroy our chance of success.

"Now we either go step by step into the future or let fear of failure destroy our chance of success," he said.