Sentence examples for avoided confronting from inspiring English sources
Both candidates have avoided confronting the military during their campaign.
That system pushed a moderate, apolitical model of Islam that avoided confronting a dictator.
At his appearance in Alabama, Mr. Gingrich avoided confronting directly the issue of whether he might drop out.
Once Isis became a significant force following its takeover of Raqqa in 2013, Assad's military largely avoided confronting it.
He avoided confronting Marshall then, even though he intervened to prevent segregated seating at a preseason game in Roanoke, Va., between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Colts.
More recently, the government in Seoul has avoided confronting the North over the kidnappings for fear of damaging its policy of engagement with its neighbour.
Historically, though, opera tended to avoid confronting the technological head-on.
But many football fans avoid confronting this central aspect of the game.
Most feminists and women's advocates avoid confronting this issue; others, like Paul, prefer to minimize it.
In it, the minister said he had thought he could avoid confronting a past which he "wanted" to be over.
Its two main airlines initially complied, re-routing flights around the zone to avoid confronting the Chinese.
