Sentence examples for an avoidance tactic from inspiring English sources

This could be an avoidance tactic but Pendleton's ignorance felt genuine.

9. Perfection is often an avoidance tactic.

Sympathy is an avoidance tactic, a means of negating actually dealing with a situation in favour of giving it an "aww" or a "bless".

In a relationship, fake agreement can be an avoidance tactic, especially if the issue is crucial to the relationship.

The stock characters talk tough and beat one another to a collective pulp — but these are all avoidance tactics, meant to keep everyone in place until the next hurricane hits and the ghosts come back to play.

But as he pushes to get the rich to pay more into federal coffers, Obama is also urging Congress to approve a trade agreement that would cement a key tax avoidance tactic deployed by some of the richest Americans.

One avoidance tactic — suicide while still competent — risks a premature demise while still enjoying a tolerable lifestyle.

I'm not sure how long I continued this avoidance tactic for – it felt like hours.

Another avoidance tactic is ostriching, or the natural impulse to ignore unpleasant information or the more basic problem most of us have of limited bandwidth in time, or resources to confront a problem.

You need to call the "Yes, but... ..... people out on their avoidance tactic by saying something like: "You know, Jackie, every time I offer you a suggestion you say, 'Yes, but...,' which makes me think you don't really want to solve this problem.

Cheese and its processed derivatives were deployed across a gazillion new products and line extensions during decades when Americans, as a fat-avoidance tactic, were actually cutting their milk consumption by 75 percent.