Sentence examples for avid in from inspiring English sources

These omissions say a great deal about the state of a country that has rarely seemed so avid in its navel-gazing, so inward-looking.

Five years ago, Dr. Skovronsky, who named his company Avid in part because that is what he is, had taken a big personal and professional gamble.

He was the most companionable man I've ever met, the most avid in his inexhaustible appetite for history, literature, politics, people, gossip, and one of the most funny.

But it has not been perceived as a friend of the record industry because it has not been avid in fighting Internet piracy.

However, what has vexed Mr. Obama as well as economists and policy makers is that Apple — and many of its high-technology peers — are not nearly as avid in creating American jobs as other famous companies were in their heydays.

And Xi Jinping, the party leader installed in November, has been especially avid in defending that legacy, even though his family suffered more under Mao than did the families of his recent predecessors.

He is an avid in-line skater who enjoyed skating to work until pollution left him spitting out black phlegm.

Robert Schmunk, 35, an avid in-line skater and a Web master at the Goddard Institute of NASA, was looking for a motif for his new Web site, NYCSK8 (pronounced New York City Skate, of course), something that would "really be New York," he said.

I thought to myself, 'those are very cool, but they're a bit bulky and unwieldy". An avid in-line roller skater (aka roller blades to anyone who grew up during the '90s) since he was a child growing up in Southern China, Liu wondered if those electric wheels could be implemented onto footwear instead, removing the bulky platform connecting the two wheels.

Antibody binding was visualized with an avid-in-biotin-peroxidase kit (VECTASTAIN Elite ABC Kit Vector Laboratoriess, Burlingame, CA) with diaminobenzidine as the chromagen and hematoxylin as a nuclear counterstain.

Global Exchange, for instance, is an outfit of 40 people based in San Francisco, and an avid believer in street protest.