Sentence examples for avoid a battle from inspiring English sources

"I want to avoid a battle," Lario said yesterday.

If just three firms pay up to avoid a battle, the patent owner makes big money.

To avoid a battle with proponents of the long planned Second Avenue subway, the Bloomberg administration offered to pay for the No. 7 line extension.

But we also highlight that a simple step - arranging an authorised overdraft - is a lot cheaper and will avoid a battle with the bank to obtain a refund.

They contended that Ms. O'Hair had been planning for some time to flee the country to avoid a battle with the Internal Revenue Service.

Latin American envoys said they wanted to avoid a battle like the one over Venezuela, which took 48 ballots to decide.

Act rather than talk, avoiding a battle of wills.

Avoiding a battle, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn retreated to a small island in the Caspian Sea, where he died in 1220.

On the eve of the war, the Israeli high command was intent on avoiding a battle with Jordan that would divert forces from the Egyptian front.

The move avoided a battle over expected gun-control amendments days before a planned march in Washington by mothers opposed to gun violence.

It appears to be aimed in part at avoiding a battle with European countries, which are critical of his policies on missile defense and global warming and see Helms-Burton as the United States legislating beyond its borders.