Sentence examples for as a method of avoiding from inspiring English sources

The functional avoidance hypothesis suggests that people retrieve overgeneral memories as a method of avoiding negative affect [ 25].

Now the administration is pushing to use this concept as a tool for regulation, and as a method of avoiding more heavy-handed rule making.

"If I had my phone with me I would have used it as a method of avoiding eye contact," I thought.

I've developed a method of avoiding being pinched, but hasty or negligent operation results in a little nip.

My story depicted Lee as something of a fake, employing more of a Sacha Baron Cohenesque (as Borat) method of avoiding scrutiny by feigning an exaggerated exoticism.

Permissive underfeeding has been proposed as a method to avoid the complications of overfeeding [ 34].

Due to the late 1950s-era threat of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) that could threaten high-altitude aircraft, seen in practice in the 1960 U-2 incident, the intended use of B-52 was changed to serve as a low-level penetration bomber during a foreseen attack upon the Soviet Union, as terrain masking provided an effective method of avoiding radar and thus the threat of the SAMs.

To hold otherwise would open an easy method of avoiding the jurisdiction of this court.

Obscured by criminalization trends is the fact that protected sex, especially in a situation where treatment has succeeded in attaining an undetectable viral load in the HIV-positive partner, continues to be a much more reliable method of avoiding HIV (as well as several other sexually transmitted infections) than disclosure.

KDs were actually developed in the 1920s as a method of mimicking fasting while avoiding malnourishment in the treatment of epilepsy [ 29].

It was as if, for all his childishness, he possessed some intuitive spark, some reflex action, prompting this queer method of avoiding a subject which he had been taught to guard with secrecy".