He challenged Al Gore, who conspicuously avoided coming to Seattle, to face down the labour unions, whose endorsement Mr Gore has won by sounding an increasingly protectionist note.
My mother's light skin allowed me to conceal my roots, but my father, whose darker skin would have drawn attention, avoided coming around my school.
He was ashamed of stopping the pills, so ashamed he had avoided coming in to see his doctor even when he started to feel ill again.
Plenty more can cover huge distances between landing, and feed safely on the wing, so pterosaurs may simply have avoided coming down onto the surface.
By using the word 'artificial,' the courts have avoided coming to grips with the problem of defining 'manipulation'; they have simply substituted one undefined term for another".
Despite Musharraf's willingness to take risks, he avoided coming back to Pakistan while the threat of arrest hung over him, preferring instead to bide his time in London and Dubai.
