Sentence examples for avoid the greater from inspiring English sources

The world must overcome its torpor to avoid the greater cost of an inevitable later intervention, and I was heartened by the efforts of George Clooney and his colleagues to bring the matter to public attention in Washington last week.

"But they knew enough to say that there were long-term risks and that precautionary action was necessary if we were to avoid the greater risk -- of the evidence mounting to the point where draconian action was unavoidable".

Anne Gro Gulla, of Telenor Group, suggests creating offshoots of the main firm that might cannibalize the mother brand but avoid the greater evil of allowing it to be eaten alive by outsiders.

Henry IV had founded his title to the throne on the descent of Lancaster from Henry III in order to avoid the greater claim of the heirs of Gaunt's elder brother Lionel, duke of Clarence.

The pattern of recommendations was made to avoid the greater perceived risk.

We'd still be walking around with pomanders trying to avoid the great unwashed".

Can we avoid the greatest intergenerational environmental injustice of all time?

That last one is key, since invention is still the surest way to avoid the greatest impacts of climate change.

Day 3: Surf and loaf around Bolinas, hoping to avoid the great white sharks that congregate there.

Many Chinese users access Facebook and Twitter via VPNs to avoid the "Great Firewall", which otherwise blocks them inside the country.

Indeed, the course will show how to bring the appropriate (possibly adjusted) accounting numbers together to challenge the market price and thus avoid the greatest risk in investing, the risk of paying too much.