Sentence examples for avoid witnessing from inspiring English sources

I was fortunate to avoid witnessing Dundee United winning their second major trophy, which happened to be against Dundee.

His boss, an SS-Untersturmführer, listened to him, but reminded him of the pledge that he and his comrades made to accept it, and so he returned to work, mindful of the fact that he could manipulate his life at Auschwitz so as to avoid witnessing the camp's most unpalatable aspects.

(Such, at any rate, was my analysis of the distinctive nausea that I felt in thinking of those things, which I avoided witnessing in person).

Of course this doesn't jibe with the film, which ended with his having reached a détente with them while avoiding witness protection.

He reiterated calls for a European sports police force to avoid events witnessed in the "not-so-distant past".

Even when I started to feel isolated, though, I knew I was avoiding the witnessing of other people's trauma, of words and images that, for want of a less cliché word, triggered me.

I almost don't even care that I lost all this money!" The Strip usually isn't the place to talk politics, but you could hardly avoid it: Witness the scrolling banner outside the Cosmopolitan that read, "Help us decide the winner of the debate by your cocktail choice at The Chandelier.

A subpoena compels a witness to testify unless there are legal grounds to avoid the witness's testimony.

Lawyers must protect attorney-client privilege and generally avoid becoming witnesses.

The man then fled the scene, right, and tried to blend in with several homeless people to avoid detection, witnesses said.

Prosecutors pushed to have the three men tried simultaneously to avoid having witnesses testify three times and possibly tell inconsistent stories.