The Board of Education deferred a decision, in part to avoid appearances of partisanship.
Most wealthy members of Congress push their financial activities to the side, with many even placing them in blind trusts to avoid appearances of conflicts of interest.
To avoid appearances of embracing Mr. Chalabi, the administration is welcoming him along with another top Iraqi official, Adel Abdul Mahdi, who happens to be visiting at the same time.
The Court may have managed to avoid a difficult larger issue, but it did not avoid the appearance of insensitivity.
"Courts are supposed to avoid the appearance of impropriety".
Better Together also needs to avoid the appearance of panic.
Our justice system strives to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
Evans revised the notion that it was better to avoid the appearance of containing China.
To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, Gosper should have taken his family elsewhere.
The Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, requested the appointment to avoid "the appearance of impropriety".
