For all practical purposes, if the Americans wish to remain in contention for a round-of-16 berth, they will need to avoid losing to one of the smallest nations ever to qualify in the 80-year-old tournament.
Airlines, of course, overbook to avoid losing billions of dollars because of empty seats.
Tittel said Christie is playing a game of supporting offshore wind rhetorically while at home in New Jersey, but going slow on it in order to avoid losing support of elements of the Republican Party who oppose it.
To avoid losing any of your deposit, or the nightmare of discovering that no amount of creative angling will get your oversize couch around a tight corner, make sure you measure the doors, halls and stairways of your new building carefully.
To avoid losing meaning of concepts through the process of translation, qualitative data analysis was conducted in the language used for data collection (Kiswahili); key themes and concepts were then translated into English for further analysis and interpretation.
To avoid losing track of the wells under the blanket of snow that renews itself here every few days, the locations are marked with yellow cones like the ones janitors use to warn of wet floors.
To avoid losing sight of patients, they were contacted by telephone by members of the coordination of the network when they were not attended to a scheduled consultation.
Not only does it avoid losing one of its top brass or having hundreds of potentially embarrassing documents aired in court, but the fine is a mere half of what most analysts had expected it to receive.
For example, in the case of infections by Salmonella enterica, hermaphrodite nematodes initially exposed to the pathogen need to be transferred each day to fresh plates to avoid losing track of these initial nematodes in the morass of progeny.
