Sentence examples for avoid a shootout from inspiring English sources

Play became more open in the last 15 minutes as teams tried to avoid a shootout.

Perhaps most impressively of all, when Italy needed goals in extra time to avoid a shootout against Germany's penalty experts, Lippi made three attacking substitutions and produced a result like a rabbit from a hat.

Apparently the governing body figured that the incentive of being sure to avoid a penalty shootout would encourage sides to go for all-out victory but, of course, it tended to have the opposite effect, with teams increasingly wary of making a mistake from which there could be no possible comeback.

Fassel said he was hoping for a windy day Sunday because he wanted to avoid an offensive shootout.

Wanting to avoid a passing-game shootout with the Buccaneers while also wishing to have his team slug it out physically, Parcells ordered runs on the Cowboys' first seven plays.

When he was ten, he says he narrowly avoided a gang shootout while he and his sister were on their way to school.

Schumacher managed to avoid a booking and went on to play a decisive role in the penalty shootout as West Germany reached the final.

With help from Swedish referee Martin Hansson, who failed to call the hand ball, France avoided a penalty-kicks shootout and won the home-and-home, total-goals playoff 2-1.

And it also offers an explanation why federal agents — widely criticized for giving the Bundys a pass — held their fire in attempts to avoid mass death in a shootout with a man court documents portrayed as a dangerous demagogue.

That included Floyd Gerhardt Jean Smartthe the clan matriarch, who avoided the shootout only to have Ohanzee gut her with a knife.

Online forums and blogs were initially popular, but Twitter soon became the preferred method for relaying real-time information about how to avoid shootouts.