Sentence examples for avoid contradicting from inspiring English sources
Like anyone who has won an election, Obama naturally wanted to avoid contradicting his campaign positions if he could.
While some praised the fact that Afghan security forces had managed to stop the attack, all spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid contradicting the Afghan government.
"Basically it was an exorbitant project," said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid contradicting his organization's role.
Senate Republicans, who mostly oppose suspending the 18.4-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax, also skirted around the issue this week to avoid contradicting their presumptive candidate, Senator John McCain of Arizona, who wants to suspend it for the summer.
At the Madrid news conference, the three men largely managed to avoid contradicting each other, though their appearance showed that changes designed to streamline the EU have — in the short term — simply produced an extra president.
In order to avoid contradicting the principles of set theory, Maddy has to say that the sets are distinct from the egg-aggregate, and so even though she wants to maintain that all these sets are located in the refrigerator, she has to say that they are nonphysical in some sense.
My mother wanted to be different from her own mother, who had always been a bitter woman, but she avoided contradicting my grandmother when she said things like "Don't play in the sun.
This implies that UNICEF's responsibility for the CCC focus on ensuring that its own structures and systems facilitate effective and efficient local action and avoid undermining, contradicting or duplicating effective and efficient local action.
Speaking after the ruling, Mr McFarlane said: "There should be allowances taken into account whereby individuals like me can actually avoid having to contradict their very strongly-held Christian principles".
-Kevin Quealy analyzes a study showing readers tend to avoid stories that contradict their beliefs.
For example, if you already assume you've been successful, you may seek out data points that confirm this assumption and avoid those that contradict it.
