Sentence examples for avoiding finishing from inspiring English sources

But finishing in the top three and avoiding finishing fourth and enduring a playoff against the fifth-placed Asian nation looks eminently realistic on the evidence of the past two games, provided home form holds up.

On 47 points to the Timber's 46, Vancouver will play their game at home to the visiting Colorado Rapids, a team with nothing to play for but dignity and the hope in avoiding finishing below either Chivas USA or San Jose.

I've been writing one novel or another for as long as I can remember but, from Fun with Ben and Rabbit (a searing exposé of intra-species inequality I started at age seven) to The Difficult Second Navel (a masochistic little volume which I've been planning for nigh-on 10 years but not got as far as starting), I've been avoiding finishing anything for most of my life.

It could, but it might also include the more mundane, everyday things we often might tend to dodge such as taking out trash, mowing the lawn, doing the dishes, going to the gym, studying for the inevitable test at school, communicating with someone we have been avoiding, finishing that project for work and so on.

Can nice guys avoid finishing last in the hypercompetitive environment of Hollywood?

Was Hobbes' "Leviathan" tossed off in order to avoid finishing a longer work?

But the defense has to improve for the Texans to avoid finishing at the bottom again.

They produced a gritty display to avoid finishing bottom of the group.

For years, S. J. Perelman studiously avoided finishing his life story, "The Hindsight Saga," perhaps for that very reason.

It needs at least one more win to avoid finishing with the lowest victory total since the N.B.A. was formed in 1949.

England must now beat New Zealand on Monday to top the group and thus reach the final, while Scotland must at least draw with Italy to avoid finishing bottom.