"The intention is that it shouldn't affect quality.
Nor would India welcome an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka, lest it should stir up separatist demands in its own province of Tamil Nadu.
You reach out and silence it lest it should wake the house.
"Be careful of what you say lest it should come to pass," she said.
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.
This was the main reason for a decision by the assembly to reduce the political influence of the army in government only gradually, lest it should provoke the hardliners.
The Nairobi mayor's office has been similarly neutered, lest it should become too powerful.Having one government responsible for both the city and its surrounding state would, however, be the envy of many American officials.
While the prospect of an independent Scotland worries the Daily Express lest it should become a "soft point of entry" to the UK for migrants, the paper celebrates David Cameron's latest message on immigration.
The world must not be allowed to forget the depths to which mankind can sink, lest it should happen again".
With trembling hand I shall cultivate sensibility, and cherish delicacy of sentiment, lest, whilst I lend fresh blushes to the rose, I sharpen the thorns that will wound the breast I would fain guard—I dread to unfold her mind, lest it should render her unfit for the world she is to inhabit—Hapless woman! what a fate is thine!
But the villain's head was bound with iron, lest it should fall to pieces from putrefaction, and set conspicuously upon a long spear-shaft for the mockery of London".
