Sentence examples for fear of scandal from inspiring English sources

Many factors explain it, including a fear of scandal and desire to protect the church's image.

Fear of scandal is also driving heightened scrutiny of executive performance.

What cowards these people were, forsaking one of their own for fear of scandal.

Cases involving middle-class children are almost always hushed up for fear of scandal.

The fear of scandal caused them to practice secrecy and concealment.

(The real problem was the hierarchy's fear of scandal, which led to endless cover-ups and enabled serial predation).

Many of the johns were married men who were reluctant to spend time and money on a mistress for fear of scandals and complications that might destroy their marriage.

His books are full of letters like one from a pair of Denver teachers who want absolute anonymity for fear of local scandal.

To the Editor: Secrecy, fear of public scandal and a closed hierarchal structure are the main factors that allow child sex abuse to occur both in the Catholic Church and the much smaller Orthodox Jewish world ("Vatican Declined to Defrock U.S. Priest Who Abused Deaf Boys," front page, March 25).

But more important, the players knew that the owners knew and they knew the owners were doing nothing about it for fear of a scandal that might damage organized baseball.

These foods are cooked for the fear of public scandal" (P1/FG5: female, first generation, age unknown) Exercise in the Western sense (designated activities with special clothing, undertaken in special places such as gymnasiums) was seen as alien to the culture and identity of many first (and some second) generation Bangladeshis.