Sentence examples for avoid succumbing from inspiring English sources

All institutions, public and private, should take note to avoid succumbing to worst practices.

Usually the ants emphasize speed, for which the tripod gait is suited, because they need to get their found food back to the protection of the underground colony as quickly as possible to avoid succumbing to furnace-like temperatures.

Not long ago, I started an experiment in self-binding: intentionally creating an obstacle to behavior I was helpless to control, much the way Ulysses lashed himself to his ship's mast to avoid succumbing to the Sirens' song.

The boss of Anheuser, August Busch, is anxious to explore alternatives to avoid succumbing to a European takeover of the 150-year-old St Louis-based company founded by his great great grandfather.

When he came to write his Violin Concerto, his first piece for large forces without electronics, his immediate intention was to avoid succumbing to the usual ways of doing things and preserve the innovative spirit of the studio.

The boss of Anheuser, August Busch IV, is anxious to explore alternatives to avoid succumbing to a European takeover of the 150-year-old St Louis-bysed company founded by his great-great grandfather.

With the energy of the Garden behind them, the Knicks avoided succumbing to one of the great shooting displays in N.B.A. history.

The Queen highlighted the impressive resilience of Enniskillen, whose Protestant and Catholic residents long avoided succumbing to the worst of Northern Ireland's sectarian passions.

"The Basket," for the most part, avoids succumbing to the preachiness that is the bane of so many family films, and for a movie like this, that's no small feat.

It is a small partner in the regional Flemish government and yet manages to block it from supporting any reform of the Belgian budget, fearing that this might favour our French- and German-speaking compatriots.Stephaan Taccoen Brugge, Belgium  * SIR – You say that a succession of short-lived administrations in Argentina "fought to avoid default before eventually succumbing".

I wanted to avoid the possibility of succumbing to the same thing by transference," he said, laughing.