Sentence examples for a wish to avoid from inspiring English sources
He declined, referring to the shame and remorse he felt about his past, and to a wish to avoid causing his children any further pain or embarrassment.
Sonia Gandhi, his mother and president of the ruling Congress Party, is similarly reticent, perhaps stemming from early anxiety over her facility in Hindi and a wish to avoid personal attacks over her Italian birth.
The runners' weaving routes and sudden U-turns do not appear to be dictated by a wish to avoid the mud, and it often feels as if the leaders are actively seeking out the puddles to test those behind them.
The problem may have been political — a wish to avoid any suggestion of dominance — or it may have been aesthetic, a dislike of the feat-after-feat structure of many old pas de deux.
The election of Benedict XVI, then Joseph Ratzinger, at age seventy-eight, expressed a desire for continuing the Wojtyla legacy (since Ratzinger had been one of John Paul II's key advisers), as well as a wish to avoid another twenty-eight-year papacy.
Obama has also come under criticism for not going to Congress with a detailed plan and instead relying on members to shape the legislation, apparently out of a wish to avoid President Bill Clinton's mistake in trying to impose healthcare reform and watching it fail.
Caught between a vague desire to modernize and a stronger wish to avoid violence, Mr. Ristic seems reluctant to let go even the most incompetent or compromised journalists.
By way of an example, a clinician might wish to avoid a treatment with pain as side-effect if the patient reported preexisting pain symptoms.
We found no strong indication to support this argument, aside from a few exceptional situations, which were linked to the location of the health centre and not even to an explicit wish to avoid contact with Western care during labor and delivery.
"There is a very widespread wish to avoid the topic unless you are an author who can make some money out of it".
The only situations where the society goes against a Jehovah's Witnesses' wish to avoid a life-saving blood transfusion is when it concerns children who have not come of age.
