Sentence examples for avoid in favor of from inspiring English sources

The Democratic candidates are spending hours talking about Iraq, a subject that Mr. Clinton and his 1992 rivals tended to avoid in favor of the economy.

Garcia, a trained philosopher, has managed to write — in fewer than 300 pages, no less — the kind of social novel his American counterparts too often avoid in favor of solipsistic musings.

Warren has been on the receiving end of sporadic criticism over the years from progressives for a hawkish if hesitant approach to foreign policy, which she appears to prefer to avoid in favor of domestic economic policy.

She even had the audacity to let them know that she was an individual with years of experience in the region and would be the one doing the teaching (a statement some professors avoid in favor of a comment that serves to equalize the status of everyone in the room).

WAUKEE, Iowa – I was late to Donald J. Trump's unannounced visit to a Pizza Ranch on Friday, his first drop-by of this ubiquitous Iowa chain that is standard stop for candidates, but which Mr. Trump has avoided in favor of boisterous crowds in big halls.

You don't need to send me the script.' " When he finally did read it, Mr. Rudolph recalled during a recent visit to New York, he discovered a tightly structured, tightly written screenplay of a sort he has usually avoided in favor of his own more conceptual, nonlinear projects.

The phrase is better avoided in favor of more specifically descriptive ones.

As string expressions can be expensive with the LIKE predicate, the use of "%" should be avoided in favor of "_" in the pattern string.

With a little more complexity, for instance, either capture or release can be avoided in favor of some other background assumptions.

For instance, a policy that requires the logging of the time at which each past event took place should be avoided in favor of some alternative one (e.g., logging the relative order between a sequence of events), because it could potentially be very inefficient.

It is a commonplace admonition that constitutional questions are to be avoided in favor of statutory resolution.