Sentence examples for avoid taking up from inspiring English sources
There can now be no excuse to avoid taking up the Shays-Meehan bill this week.
Many people avoid taking up a new exercise they perceive as high impact or too stressful on their bodies, whether that's pounding the pavements or lifting weights.
A more benign version of the thesis – that Siri might have changed his own mind – can be glimpsed, in comedic form, behind Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope in the UK), the 2011 film by Nanni Moretti, in which a pontiff goes on the run post-election to avoid taking up office.
Third, is the problem of adverse selection, which is the tendency of individuals to avoid taking up health insurance unless they are sure of an underlying health problem with a high propensity of healthcare utilization.
Then it did something Bush had vowed to avoid, taking up a pardon application from a felon whose case had not been reviewed by the pardon attorney.
In the meantime, the court will proceed shorthanded into the 2016-17 that that runs through June, hearing arguments and issuing rulings, with Chief Justice John Roberts' court likely eager to avoid taking up cases that could lead to 4-4 split decisions.
Currently general secretary of the ruling Congress Party, he has spent much effort democratising its youth wing while avoiding taking up a cabinet position.
He avoided taking up golf for far longer than most executives do, and began playing only shortly before deciding to run for public office, in his late fifties.
After the 8 weeks when follow-up data for the current study have been collected, the participants are offered resistance exercise rather than neuromuscular exercise for logistic reasons, such as avoiding taking up place in the designated exercise rooms used in the study and consequently affecting the time to completion of the study.
Eliot's strategy was to avoid taking sides by showing up on every side.
They do this to avoid feelings of shame and guilt but also to avoid taking responsibility for growing up – which means that their mistakes can't be faced, never mind learnt from.
