Sentence examples for avoiding any attempt from inspiring English sources

"The president's plan is simply to tax more in order to spend more: avoiding any attempt at reducing the waste and inefficiency that plagues the federal budget," Mr. Sessions said.

The report, expected to be released this month, will propose holding an international architectural competition to upgrade the union's quarter, while expressly avoiding any attempt to match Washington or Beijing in grandeur, Ms. Saraceno and other participants said.

By avoiding any attempt at regulation of the soft-drink industry, governments don't simply back their citizens' wisdom of beverage-choice, they grant corporations the freedom to profit massively from marketing drinks that damage public health – a freedom for which the NHS (a.k.a the taxpayer) must pick up the tab, paying £6bn a year to combat diet-related illnesses, according to Sustain.

The party leader listens to the enthusiasts here who have high hopes of reopening it as the second longest cycle tunnel in the world, but she wisely declines to go under ground, thus avoiding any attempt to get through a 20in hole.

But there might be something in avoiding any attempt at being comprehensive, and instead diving into the off-centre bits of Bowie most obits would leave on the cutting room floor.

But there might be something in avoiding any attempt at being comprehensive, and instead diving into the off-center bits of Bowie most obits would leave on the cutting room floor.

He avoided any attempt to dribble the ball.

Hughes deftly avoided any attempt to define what precisely constituted a "mild smack", for example.

That notion seems antiquated now, and Anthony avoided any attempt to make the case.

This narratological downstairs is also the place where Coetzee has Señor C remind us that his opinions do not necessarily represent his deepest thoughts (and, by extension, that we should avoid any attempt to lead them back to Coetzee).

We also avoided any attempt at diagnosing and managing psycho-social factors.