Sentence examples for attempt to avoid doing from inspiring English sources

Six weeks later, an epidemiologist with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, in an e-mail to the boy's mother, accused Whole Foods executives of "grasping at straws and dragging their feet in an attempt to avoid doing a recall".

UPDATE: The professor held his bachelor party out of state so as not to run into any of his students, which can be seen as both an attempt to avoid doing professional harm and a declaration that attending a strip club could do just that.

The White House only gave more formal Presidential torture authorization in 2003 and again in 2004 (though even there, it attempted to avoid doing so).

His answer attempts to avoid doing either: Rubio tries to be simultaneously deferential to the authority of scientists, the authority of scripture, and the authority of parents to teach their kids as they see fit.

Suddenly the theory that a contrived fixture list including four derbies would give Hull an unfair advantage over fellow pre-season favourites Leeds and St Helens, and hamper Rovers' attempt to avoid relegation, does not look quite so sound.

In interviews last week, Mrs. Cheney certainly made every attempt to avoid controversy -- but did not will herself into dullness, either.

In this work defibrillation outcomes are predicted prior to electrical shocks using a neural network model to analyse VF time series in an attempt to avoid defibrillation attempts that do not result in ROSC.

But also, since I was on holiday and enjoying myself, there were constant interruptions that I made no attempt to avoid: playing with my children, doing a piece of gardening, going to the shops, having meals, simply falling asleep in the sun.

The president advised the goalkeeper to shave his beard – he hasn't – in an attempt to avoid crowds and cautioned: "I don't know how you are going to survive the mobs, man".

In Fear and Trembling, for example, he praises the courage of Abraham, who did not attempt to avoid the suffering involved in taking the decision to kill his son.

In his opening statement on Monday, Mr. Swift talked more about Mr. Headley, who pleaded guilty in an attempt to avoid the death penalty, than he did his own client, describing Mr. Headley's history of deceit, including multiple marriages and working as an informer for the Drug Enforcement Administration while he was trafficking heroin into the country from Pakistan.