Sentence examples for avoided working on from inspiring English sources

Despite encouragement from his wife, Siri Hustvedt, he has avoided working on a computer, "because one's mind is filled with so many different ideas and images, it's very easy to go off suddenly in the wrong direction," he said.

The couple, who have six children together and are engaged, have avoided working on films together since they became an item in 2005.

During his first year at the Justice Department, and for several months as the head of the antitrust division, Mr. Barnett avoided working on any Microsoft matters.

According to Eichenwald, Microsoft's top performers avoided working on the same teams "out of fear that they would be hurt in the rankings".

"Until the 1990s," explains Roman sexuality-in-art expert Professor John Clarke of the University of Texas Austen, "academics avoided working on 'obscene' Greek and Roman texts or 'pornographic' painting and sculpture, letting hack writers publish sensational and highly inaccurate picture books".

But she apparently took pains to avoid working on them.

Many executives avoid working on their firms' purpose.

(Was I also trying to avoid working on the task at hand? Of course).

A focus on porn also avoids working on the real reasons rape exists.

For the same reason the siblings avoid working on the same piece simultaneously.

He tried to avoid working on commission as a photographer for hire and even more rarely was he willing to sell his negatives.