Sentence examples for avoid owning up from inspiring English sources

Obviously, I did this to avoid owning up to my actions.

I corrected it, although I sheepishly admit my first — though fleeting — instinct was to avoid owning up.

"A significant Hughes investment implies that in order to avoid owning up to charges Hughes is willing to back projects that virtually no other investor would," says Kidd.

"There is no way the Navy could have avoided owning up," she says.

India's big business houses want to set up banks, too.GE shows why industrial firms should avoid owning big finance operations.

WALL STREET JOURNAL French Banks and Regulators Strove to Avoid Rules  |  French regulators resisted owning up to the country's — and the continent's — developing financial problems, back when a tougher stance might have made a difference, The Wall Street Journal writes.

They started trying harder to avoid such incidents, and, when that failed, to control their effect by owning up faster to their own responsibility.

Occasionally HMRC offers an amnesty to tax-dodgers – you own up, pay the full tax, but avoid additional fines.

Does she own up?

Just own up to it.

The trick, we must realize, will be to avoid setting up roadblocks to our own success.