Sentence examples for attempting to avoid an from inspiring English sources

Van Gaal fielded a strong team, attempting to avoid an embarrassing loss to a much weaker team struggling in their own league.

Malakhov injured his knee midway through the season opener in Atlanta last Saturday while attempting to avoid a check.

Last June, he broke a bone in his foot in this forest while attempting to avoid a dog that had suddenly and unexpectedly crossed his path.

Politically and popularly isolated, primarily over foreign policy issues, Bush is attempting to avoid a free-fall into lame duck status.

Running back Andre Kendrick ran for a short gain, but on the next play Vick was called for an intentional grounding penalty while attempting to avoid a sack.

The first play of Tech's drive was almost a disaster for Virginia Tech, as Marcus Vick fumbled the ball while attempting to avoid a sack.

The Manchester City manager, Mark Hughes, has identified Jo, his returning Brazilian Olympian, as the side's possible saviour when they attempt to avoid an early Uefa Cup exit tonight.

The most threatened countries will attempt to avoid a catastrophe by adopting austerity programs.

As it turned out, Berlusconi's later attempts to avoid a further high-profile and embarrassing confrontation with the singer, as revealed in the leaked memo, were doomed.

Although the news was not unexpected, it will come as a blow to manager Alan Pardew, who is also likely to be without injured duo Yoan Gouffran and Papiss Cissé as he attempts to avoid a third successive derby defeat.

Britain face Iceland on Monday as they attempt to avoid a whitewash.