Sentence examples for avoiding challenging from inspiring English sources

It's not good if we're just trying to gain a sense of superiority or avoiding challenging ourselves to do better.

Self-regulation is commonly described as the process by which older adults modify or adjust their driving patterns by driving less or intentionally avoiding challenging situations in response to declining abilities (Baldock et al. 2006; D'Ambrosio et al. 2008; Molnar and Eby 2008).

At post-test, drivers who had received the educational intervention were more likely to acknowledge that the quality of their eyesight was less than excellent, report a higher frequency of avoiding challenging driving situations (e.g. left-turns) and report performing more self-regulatory practices (e.g. three right-turns) as compared to controls.

Clark Gillies could fight so well that opponents avoided challenging him.

He even devised a diplomatic answer that avoided challenging the existence of God.

What is more, some Western academics and NGOs avoid challenging these traditions because they want to appear respectful of diversity.

Eliminating less demanding courses was expected to remove an excuse that schools might use to avoid challenging disadvantaged students to strive for college eligibility.

Another critic derided such reporters as "pussycat vigilantes" because they avoided challenging rich or powerful Pakistanis, whose Western-style lifestyles go unexamined.

Both men want more export pipelines built in Russia to ease bottlenecks, but where Mr. Khodorkovsky has advocated private projects to compete with Transneft, the state pipeline monopoly, Mr. Alekperov has avoided challenging Transneft.

"Although polite culture put women on a pedestal to avoid challenging the prerogatives of men," Howe writes, "it represented in important respects an advance over the subjugation of women common in premodern society".

According to a message posted on the official Twitter feed of the Canadian boat, the ships "slowed down a bit" on Thursday night to avoid challenging the Israeli Navy in the dark.