Sentence examples for avoided rather from inspiring English sources

These words suggest that the practice of beating prisoners up is not to be avoided, rather to be carried out with due caution and out of sight.

This is still a very red state, so the accomplishment might be in terms of further damage avoided, rather than political capital gained".

The collective display demonstrated European leaders' continued belief that the biggest mass migration since the second world war is a possibility to be avoided, rather than a certainty to be better managed.

Even in the early aughts, when articles in the business press questioned the rise of housing prices and mortgage loans, they typically did so for audiences of investors: these were financial products to be avoided rather than evidence of systemic corruption.

But at least one species of shark the dogfish is so reluctant to form a relationship that the females hide away in groups to avoid the males' attentions.This seemingly odd strategy, in which interactions between males and females are avoided rather than, as in most animal species, encouraged, was discovered by David Morritt and Jon Nash of the University of Sheffield.

The researchers found that sharks exposed to the highest CO2 levels significantly avoided, rather than gravitated toward, the prey odor cues and attacked food less aggressively.

Nowadays, nature is a place most of us visit, suppress, exploit, or avoid, rather than inhabit.

"We've got to have much more focus on avoiding rather than surviving crashes," he said.

This idea, of course, avoids rather than solves the problem of the origin of life.

But the one-dimensional characters are mostly ones you'd want to avoid rather than spend a holiday with".

He sees it as a partial step, designed to avoid, rather than confront, the hardest issues facing Israel.