Sentence examples for avoid tensions from inspiring English sources

For now, the Obama administration seems determined to avoid tensions and to search for ways to cooperate with China.

A week?" said one local resident who asked to be identified only by her first name, Kalanit, to avoid tensions with her neighbors.

He avoided Mr. Belaid's funeral to "avoid tensions," he said, but was clearly stung by the chants against him, which he called part of a demonization campaign.

He said he urged modesty among his congregation in order to avoid tensions in the community, but he has met resistance.

To avoid tensions, grant all special privileges to the resident dog, including first feeding and the right to a treat, petting and praise.

Viviane Reding, a vice-president of the commission, told Cambridge University's law faculty that "bold reforms" were needed to avoid tensions across Europe as new governance arrangements were introduced to stabilise the single currency.

Then again it's hard to avoid tension in a sport that takes such a mortal toll.

Mr. Erthal added that to avoid tension, inspectors were typically told to ask company employees for records rather than to search for them on their own.

General secretary, Brendan Barber, said to "avoid tension" bosses should encourage employees to watch the game if they wanted to and make up the time later.

"I truly believe that what Iranian society wants right now is to avoid tension and to pave the way for reform," said Mohammad Ali Abtahi, the midranking cleric who is Mr. Khatami's chief of staff.

Mr. Kostunica's visit was hastily organized to avoid tension over what he has stressed is a private visit to the Bosnian Serb town of Trebinje earlier on Sunday for the reburial of a revered Serbian poet, Jovan Ducic, who was born in Trebinje and died in the United States in 1943.