Sentence examples for avoid being cornered from inspiring English sources

Arafat feared being caught in a pincer and dared not make too big a compromise just as Palestinians were starting to admire Hizbullah's success in ousting Israel from Lebanon by force and not diplomacy.So Mr Indyk thinks that Arafat arrived at Camp David determined to avoid being cornered.

The targeted assassinations and reprisals, including the destruction of Palestinian homes in refugee camps, during the three-week period in which Yasir Arafat succeeded in lowering the violence dramatically, seemed clearly intended to provoke retaliations from Hamas and Islamic Jihad in order to avoid being cornered into political negotiations.

This will help you avoid being cornered for a lecture in the few minutes it takes you to change clothes upon arriving home.

"If Patrick Dorismond were to address young people today," Monsignor Darbouze declared, "he would say, 'Because you are young and because you are black, avoid being on street corners too long because you could be confused for drug dealers and be killed.

"We train them, so that they can avoid being on the corners and in the streets where they are searched out by gangs," he notes.

You would think that, if you wanted to avoid being backed into that corner ever again, if you wanted to avoid more bailouts, you would oppose efforts to protect the status quo.

Try to sit at the back and in a corner to avoid being seen.

Does the A.D.L. believe that it is the role of minority religions to avoid being visible — to hide in odd corners, in order to respect the intolerance of others?

Says Werner: "If we wanted to avoid being pushed into the Rolls-Royce corner, we had to become active geographically and from a product standpoint".

Snapchat is cornered by Facebook's competition and desperate to avoid missing revenue estimates again.

Having once been cornered into a choice between costly rescues and gut-wrenching failures, governments are determined to avoid a repeat.