Sentence examples for avoided the sort of from inspiring English sources

He has, it is true, released political prisoners before the election, and also avoided the sort of violent crackdowns he has been known for in the past.

Unlike his predecessor, Michael Howard, he avoided the sort of rhetoric that had given the Tories a reputation as the "Nasty Party," conjuring the xenophobic nationalism of Enoch Powell and his 1968 "rivers of blood" speech.

NATO and Russia both had planes in the sky over the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s – happily they avoided the sort of incident which threatens to set the old adversaries at loggerheads once again.

Despite some public resistance to budget cuts, it has also avoided the sort of harsh austerity measures that the European Union authorities have imposed on member states fighting to reduce their mountains of debt.

Certainly the Taliban have generally avoided the sort of indiscriminate suicide spectaculars seen in Iraq.There is even some evidence of a degree of internal dispute within the Taliban on how to proceed.

And, by and large, the candidates have avoided the sort of attacks that helped curdle support for Howard Dean of Vermont and Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri in the 2004 contest here.

That would allow Spain to avoid the sort of bailouts that banks in Greece, Portugal and Ireland received.

He strives to avoid the sort of "group-think" that led to Vietnam.

Mr Obama has managed to avoid the sort of humiliating defeat in Congress that David Cameron suffered in Britain's Parliament.

The cellphone companies wanted to avoid the sort of price wars that occurred a decade earlier in the long-distance market.

But mostly, remarkably, Mr. Brown managed to avoid the sort of career-ending crises that undid venturesome directors elsewhere.