Sentence examples for avoided debates from inspiring English sources

He has avoided debates with Mr. White and limited his attacks.

So far Laporta and his enemy have not met because Bartomeu has avoided debates attended by the other candidates.

This year, he has avoided debates unless they included all minor candidates, which has limited the time his opponents have to attack his record.

Mr. Pataki avoided debates in his two previous campaigns for governor in 1994 and 1998 and has specifically refused to debate Mr. Golisano.

Mr. Perry, who avoided debates as governor and who has never weathered a significant attack from a candidate who is more conservative than he is, is losing the contest.

He has avoided debating her as well.

Whitman avoided debating Republican rival Poizner at the convention, but did debate him before a private fundraising group on Monday night in Orange County.

He has avoided debating Dr. Gill, and has been largely silent on the hot-button topic of women's choice, not even taking a stand against the vulgar comments from Rush Limbaugh about women's health and personal freedom.

He would also like the White House to be transparent, which is hilarious coming from a guy who avoided debating most of his life as a Texas politician, for reasons that are now, sadly, pretty obvious to everyone.

But faced with criticism that he was trying to avoid debates, Mr. Bush relented on his objections about the sites.

But, if Clinton has concluded that the lesson of 2008 is to avoid debates, she does not yet understand why she lost that night in Philadelphia.