Sentence examples for avoid any whiff of from inspiring English sources

Davey, aware of the allegations in broad terms since Friday, has been determined to respond by being seen to act, and given the scale of voter anger at energy prices, to avoid any whiff of complacency.

Davey, who was broadly aware of the allegations since Friday, has been determined to be seen to act, and given the scale of voter anger at energy prices, to avoid any whiff of complacency.

To avoid any whiff of a conflict of interest, Mr Netanyahu took pains to stress this week that his friend and benefactor, US casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who sponsors a pro-Netanyahu free tabloid, Yisrael Hayom, is not interested in operations in Israel.

But he entered Thursday's meeting with Obama, and a later one with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev ., with some bargaining chips, aware of D-Nev .ts' desire to avoid any withf of intraparty disomet.

Just make sure to pay on time, so as to avoid any whiff of interest owed to the bank.

More impressively, what follows avoids any whiff of anticlimax, as student Prentice McHoan returns to the bosom of his family to investigate the disappearance of a beloved uncle.

Certainly Smiley avoids any whiff of the lecture-hall - the impression given is more of the schoolroom: 'Every novelist brings some knowledge of dramatic states of mind to his writing.

Suleiman himself, present in the film and playing himself, doesn't speak; the faux naïveté of the silent observer hides politics in the apolitical, and avoids any whiff of the impolitic.

Some directors wanted to make sure they got the gay details right; others wanted help avoiding any whiff of faggotry.

Yet he must avoid like the plague any whiff of suspicion that he has inherited his father's other views on foreign policy.

As a writer whose imagination has been fed as much by poetry as by fiction, I wanted the language and structure to draw on poetic elements, but to avoid like the plague any whiff of infection from the unreadable "poetic novel".