Sentence examples for avoid succumbing to from inspiring English sources

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

Unless someone has given you specific, credible information that time truly is of the essence, avoid succumbing to pressure tactics.

Berkeley's Dacher Keltner, author of the HBR article "Don't Let Power Corrupt You" and the book The Power Paradox explains how to avoid succumbing to power's negative effects.

This method doesn't allow a lot of give, meaning climbers must move fast to avoid succumbing to the eventual law of gravity.

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.

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.

As one commentator explained, for example, the value to me of giving my child a polio vaccine may be $1 million per dose, because it would be worth that to avoid my child succumbing to polio.

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