If Porter's account is true — and he has no reason to misrepresent events — Cameron was happy to jettison a hugely respected and effective frontbencher like Graham Brady [who resigned as shadow minister for Europe in support of grammar schools] simply to avoid muddling the message from the party leadership when he was, at best, equivocal about the arguments.
Rinse the paint brush in water between colors to avoid muddling the different paints.
To avoid that muddle, Steve Brown and Xue-Zhong Liu, molecular biologists at the Medical Research Council's Mouse Genome Center in Harwell, England, sought families in remote areas of the world, where the families' deafness is more likely to be caused by a single mutated gene.
Yet, practically speaking, it's hard to avoid a muddle.
To avoid your presentation becoming muddled, structure it around your core message or messages.
Create a better privacy law than the current muddle, not just to avoid unjustifiable invasions by news media but also because digital technology creates an urgent need for clearer and more effective limits.
For his part, Mr Hollande does not want to reopen the splits in his Socialist Party over the failed referendum to approve the EU's constitutional treaty in 2005.So the patriarch and matriarch find it easier to avoid talking of the future at all, preferring to muddle along.
He ordered reporters to avoid adverbs and adjectives, along with "but" and "however," which he said muddled the clarity of sentences.
In order to avoid any coloration from the mint, Sylvestre presses the mint into the rum rather than muddling it, then strains it out.
It is hard to avoid the impression that the desire to remould the euro area in Germany's image is designed above all to mollify German voters.The bigger flaw in the plan is that it seeks to muddle through the sovereign-debt crisis rather than get on top of it.
