But when President Obama said, quite sensibly, that the U.S. should avoid the appearance of meddling in Iran's election dispute, Howard Berman and Nancy Pelosi decided to join with Republicans in undermining Obama's policy.
To realize this worldwide audiovisual adventure, he'll be harnessing the power of crowdsourced micro-funding to steer and finance the project (and avoid those meddling corporate execs).
Mr. Nasr said that he refrained from publishing his new book before the United States election in November to avoid the impression that he was trying to meddle in the American political debate.
Two matches into the season is far too early to predict which clubs will be meddling in the murky waters of the bottom three come May but, on this evidence, Bolton will do well to avoid the relegation scrap.
One of the first examples was an attempt by the railways to avoid government meddling in its affairs.
And, after all, the Conservatives are supposed to believe that governments should avoid meddling with the labour supply.
"The court must avoid undue meddling and second-guessing, and must accord government agency law enforcement and financial determinations such as those now before it the proper level of deference they are due," the judge wrote.
Put another way, if ET is so advanced, shouldn't they have something equivalent to Star Trek's Prime Directive in which they make every effort to avoid meddling in the development of less advanced civilizations?
The Beijing government has veto power when "defense, foreign affairs or essential public interest or policy" is on the line, and while it might prefer to avoid openly meddling in a case that would inflame Hong Kong's local sensibilities, it can make its preferences felt, and it has little incentive to protect Snowden from his own government.
Lastly, to operate in China as a non-governmental, non-profit endeavor, and to grow at the speed RFH has, it requires a high degree of political sophistication to avoid government meddling.
