Sentence examples for and seeks to avoid from inspiring English sources

Connecticut's legislation calls for tight regulation and seeks to avoid disagreements with the federal government.

And those values extend not only to imaginative play: Lego will not make a toy to look like a 20th-century weapon and seeks to avoid promoting violent play.

One impressive and highly effective alternative to the V.A.'s traditional treatment process is the Wounded Warrior Project's Combat Stress Recovery Program, which emphasizes the importance of interpersonal relationships, goal-setting and outdoor, rehabilitative retreats and seeks to avoid the stigma associated with traditional treatment.

It's not clear whether Dropbox is currently profitable, but boosting paying subscribers — Business it Dropbox's highest service tier and costs $15 per user per month at a minimum of five users — will undoubtedly help the company firm up its bottom line as it gears up for an IPO and seeks to avoid the fate of Box, whose own public offering has been delayed.

When pitching, he maintains constant equanimity and seeks to avoid showing emotion, a trait he learned from his father and has embodied since playing Little League Baseball.

But the Academy Awards, knowing a thing or two about movies, offers a rebuke to our political tradition: a voting system at the Oscars that values consensus and seeks to avoid the discomfort of a majority.

Many soldiers and police officers did not carry weapons, and sought to avoid using force.

The jumpy American populace of that era stayed out of crowded places and sought to avoid trips to major cities.

The statement did not mention Iraq's claims of two dead, but said allied airstrikes "do not target civilian populations or infrastructure" and seek to avoid civilian casualties.

And for us in Britain this will pose a sharp, for some deeply uncomfortable, choice that we have hoped and sought to avoid.

She thought it unfortunate that so many women wrote "out of a decorative impulse" and sought to avoid wasting her own talents on mere "literary needlework".