Using an algorithm in immigration to predict economic performance may sound like a way to avoid a hard debate about immigration, but that is precisely why it is so dangerous.
While Barnier insists on the "sequencing" of talks, so that trade negotiations cannot start until probably January, finding a way to avoid a "hard" customs border for troubled Northern Ireland may well involve some earlier discussion of the matter.
It seemed neither simple nor hard: simple in a hard way, hard in a simple way.
If you want to avoid a disastrous hard Brexit.
The easy way to stop procrastinating is to restructure your life to avoid temptation, and the hard way is to strengthen your resolve or will, so temptation can be resisted rather than avoided.
This person has been down a similar path to the one you are embarking on and can help guide you to the right decisions, and help you avoid learning lessons "the hard way".
You may avoid learning this the hard way by not going there.
But it could turn out to be another cop-out – an easy way to avoid making a hard decision on prices.
While my former crewmates and I were heartbroken at the news, all of my firefighter friends balked at the mainstream media's description of the dead as "fallen heroes," seeing it as a pat, reductive way to avoid taking a hard look at why the tragedy occurred.
Leases allow companies to avoid buying a hard asset.
