The law on the legal privilege of journalists to avoid being compelled to testify in a criminal inquiry is notoriously sketchy, but the courts have repeatedly recognized that reporters' work is entitled to a degree of protection.
Silent Circle's other products, Silent Phone and Silent Text, which the company continues to offer, are built with precisely this exemption in mind — so the company can avoid ever being compelled to turn over real, decrypted user data to the government.
With Strasburg, the Nationals felt compelled to avoid the same fate, and for good reason.
Home-grown technologies are a way to avoid such costs and compel foreigners to license Chinese technology.
"Chart authors strive to avoid patterns that would compel a player to face away from the screen," say Donahue and co.
And yet she somehow feels compelled to avoid the limelight, ducking and diving behind trees and other useful props.
While in such cases, the alternatives that we are compelled to avoid remain in principle open to us the offer is not physically imposed on us, it is just bad the same could be said of most literal coercion.
The king, despite his efforts to avoid approving this petition, was compelled to give his formal consent.
The risk of using an early draft pick on a quarterback -- then having him fail to meet the hype -- makes some team officials queasy, and compels others to avoid the gamble altogether.
"The good thing about markets is not that they avoid mistakes, but that they compel you in a speedy fashion to correct them once they are identified -- sometimes in draconian fashion," said Kermit L. Schoenholtz, chief economist at Salomon Smith Barney and Citibank.
