Sentence examples for avoid the strife from inspiring English sources

I was still kind of, well, perky, contemplating the qualifying process, playing fledging social director, trying to figure my adviser out, working to avoid the strife I saw around me, trying to keep from feeling too lonely, and trying to figure out whether I really was meant to be here.

It managed to avoid the internal strife and jealousies that tore apart other newspaper dynasties and traumatized their companies.

On the other hand, there is a strong desire to maintain the current economic boom, and to avoid the renewed strife that might emanate from the political impact of the indictments if they accuse Hezbollah or Syrian parties.

A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.

During the 17th-century wars of French king Louis XIV, neutrality gradually developed as an official maxim of the Swiss Confederation, both as a result of an institutionally weak foreign policy and as a way to avoid the internal strife inherent in the different loyalties of the various cantons.

Mr Milosevic cannot bring himself even to implement an agreement he signed with Mr Rugova a year ago which would have brought Kosovo's underground education system back, uncurbed, into the state system.Western countries are desperate to avoid the ethnic strife that could trigger further unrest in neighbouring Macedonia, which has a large, unhappy Albanian minority.

Afghanistan's leaders have a responsibility to honor the faith that voters have placed in democracy and to avoid the divisive ethnic strife that has marked so much of its history.

The north African state has mostly avoided the political strife faced by other Arab spring countries.

Syrians pride themselves on being an oasis of calm in a dangerous region, avoiding the religious strife of neighboring Lebanon or Iraq.

Many programmers were taking jobs abroad to avoid the rioting and religious strife, he said.

Schwarz may have limited the orchestra's further improvement; surely the country's finest musicians, wary of the strife, are likely to avoid the orchestra.