Sentence examples for avoiding further confrontation from inspiring English sources

That seems to have scared both sides into avoiding further confrontation.

But he made it clear that the freeze would not apply in East Jerusalem, avoiding further confrontation with the Israeli right.

Only when he softened his public stance and hardened his private line did Beijing and Moscow begin to see the advantages of avoiding further confrontation.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg urged "calm and de-escalation," and asked Moscow and Ankara to communicate to work out a strategy for avoiding further confrontations.

Mr. Hadad Adel said he had sent a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei seeking his intervention to avoid further confrontation with Mr. Ahmadinejad.

Nilsson was a linesman at the match, but avoided further confrontation with McEnroe, who never won another Grand Slam after his magical season.

If you know what the rules are and are a little bit assertive, Mr. Besse added, travelers can avoid further confrontation, as Mr. Tracy managed to do.

"It is crucial for the region's leaders, political and religious, to call for restraint and avoid further confrontation," he said.

The women said they were maintaining the required pace because they remained appropriately ahead of the group behind them, but they skipped the third hole to avoid further confrontation.

The Islamists took measures on Sunday to avoid further confrontations, including canceling several protests over the military's ouster of a democratically elected Islamist-led government.

Mr. Zhang the blogger said Web censors had deleted some of his posts on other delicate issues he had addressed, but he had tried to tone down his criticisms of the treatment of the homeless to avoid further confrontations.