"Obama prioritizes avoiding any entanglements where it is uncertain that such an intervention will work," a State Department official told me.
Analysts familiar with General Sisi's thinking say that unlike his predecessors, he wants to avoid any political entanglements.
In a coincidence of timing, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet rights advocacy group in San Francisco, announced that it would not be accepting the Bitcoins that had been donated via an account in its name, in order to avoid any legal entanglements with the service.
2) Get out of Afghanistan as soon as we decently can and avoid any further foreign entanglements.
He banged on about education and his record as governor of Florida, as he always does, and he avoided any nasty entanglements with Trump, or anybody else.
Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements.
It's a song against yearning: the man seems to be inventing an excuse in order to avoid romantic entanglement.
"I felt threatened," the woman, who requested anonymity to avoid further entanglement with Mr. Hernandez, said recently, adding that she reported the threat to prosecutors, who never charged him.
Nonetheless, in a long line of cases the Supreme Court has insisted not only that government should not help in advancing religion, but that it should avoid "excessive entanglement" in it.
But Stalin still felt comparatively weak: when, in 1950, believing that it would be a simple local operation, he authorized the North Korean attack on South Korea, and the United Nations intervened, he was careful to avoid Soviet entanglement.
