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Discover LudwigThe phrase "avoid dragging" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when advising someone to refrain from prolonging or delaying a process or conversation unnecessarily. Example: "In our meetings, it's important to stay on topic and avoid dragging the discussion into unrelated areas."
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Cameron was also under pressure from his coalition partners the Liberal Democrats to avoid dragging Britain into a military conflict.
To lighten the load and to avoid dragging, he said employees could change bags more often but had to use medium-grade bags only.
Beyond self-binding, there are other ways to avoid dragging your feet, most of which depend on what psychologists might call reframing the task in front of you.
But it is Ms. Maddow's contention that subsequent presidents have even more deliberately sought to avoid dragging Congress into the conversation, because Congressional debates and military allocations upset the public.
A bigger commitment to asset purchases would help, in Europe especially, but the best thing that could happen to rich economies right now might be an acknowledgement across central banks that a few years of inflation between 3% and 5% might be beneficial on net and would therefore be tolerated.Above all, governments and central banks should try to avoid dragging the world economy into recession.
How do we avoid dragging out the response times without rushing VCs into saying "no"?
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Given the urgency of the economic crisis, Mr. Yeltsin and Mr. Chernomyrdin have tried to raise the stakes for the second vote, in order to avoiding dragging the political battle on for another week.
Formula One needs to move away from confrontational methods governance and it will be Todt's job to ensure that the stewardship of races is fair and avoids dragging the sport through its courts in such a public manner.
Obtaining complete expansion of the embolization device by using a longer device, increasing vessel coverage, using adjunctive aneurysm coiling, and avoiding dragging and stretching of the device are important preventive measures.
And for all her idiocy, it's a hole that Kent Police should – and could – really have avoided dragging Paris Brown down into.
In the past, the GOP has avoided drag-out nomination fights with winner-take-all primary contests; party officials believed a more incremental process would leave the eventual nominee too bloodied to hold up in a general election.
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