Avoiding the prospect of further atrocities is clearly a legitimate concern.
Ownership of the services often remains with the city, avoiding the prospect of a fire sale.
While Mr. Holder has portrayed his original decision as based narrowly on legal tactics — like avoiding the prospect of a drawn-out appeal challenging the commissions system itself — it was both hailed and condemned on ideological grounds.
Alcoa is said by analysts to be mainly concerned with taking full control of the alumina venture and avoiding the prospect of having to work with a new partner.
P.G.D. is a godsend to parents like my wife and me who are carriers of genetic disease and want to have healthy children while avoiding any prospect of abortion.
After weeks of worry, the US Senate and House of Representatives finally passed a compromise bill to water down the combined tax hikes and spending cuts, which had been due to come into effect this month, avoiding the prospect of the world's biggest economy moving back into recession.
"The project is exhibiting the key benefits that the industry derives from successful open source collaboration: rapid development, faster testing, feedback and project turn around, broader industry adoption and learning through implementation and de-facto standardization whilst avoiding the prospect of commoditization.
After attempting to expand production and avoid deflationary prospects in the late 1990s, monetary policy reversed course prematurely in the early 2000s as the inflation rate inched above zero.
And for cities in desperate trouble, sweeping control by an outside manager would make it possible to fix things faster — and avoid devastating prospects like bankruptcy.
Both seemed to hold themselves aloof from the public slugfest waged by their seconds, as if to avoid weakening prospects of unifying the nation when the moment arrives.
