Sentence examples for avoid taking steps from inspiring English sources

The Europeans conversely managed to keep their currency, the euro, out of the final communique despite concerns among policy makers outside Europe that its low value is being used to avoid taking steps for painful economic restructuring.

American officials want to avoid taking steps that might bolster the stature of the current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose anti-Semitic rants and hostile attitude toward the West make him a potentially difficult interlocutor for diplomatic outreach.

In the run-up to Election Day, there were no indictments or public pronouncements by the special counsel's office, in keeping with Justice Department guidelines that prosecutors should avoid taking steps that could be perceived as intending to influence the outcome of the vote.

People like others who come off as sincere and genuine, so avoid taking steps to change so far that you are uncomfortable with your actions.

One danger must above all be avoided: taking steps that in the name of security would compromise America's greatest quality, its open society.

When it comes to strategic decisions, however, he has avoided taking steps that would tie his successor's hands in the long run.

Many interviewees mentioned the importance of taking a step-by-step approach, basing management on past experience and avoiding taking steps that would be hard to reverse.

If he cannot deliver a balanced budget or avoid taking unpopular steps toward achieving it, he's done politically.

"I urge the government of the Russian Federation to avoid taking further steps backward to a more restrictive era," she added, urging officials to soften the laws passed in recent weeks.

An effort by the European Central Bank to intervene in government bond markets hit a technical shortfall Tuesday, raising new questions about how long the central bank can avoid taking bigger steps to address the euro region's debt crisis.

Senator Inhofe has sided with elements in the coal industry that want to avoid taking responsible steps to limit their mercury emissions, even though he knows that those emissions eventually bio-accumulate in the fish we eat.