Sentence examples for avoiding the bad from inspiring English sources

He is throwing more strikes than ever, trusting his knuckleball and avoiding the bad counts that once forced him to use his average fastball in predictable patterns.

The canniest move we made was to tip the maître d' handily on our first night, avoiding the bad table that was assigned us and ensuring, each evening, a dramatic window table.

For example, a boat can use an approaching storm to its advantage by skirting the perimeter of the front, catching the wind but avoiding the bad weather in the storm's center.

Finding the good stuff is not the only current challenge in online research; avoiding the bad stuff is just as important ("Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to Fit Into a Google World," front page, June 21).

Bosses may take fewer risks than they did in the past but they may be taking the sensible risks, and avoiding the bad ones.Firms are indeed flooding away from public markets; but that is happening across the world, so cannot obviously be blamed on SOX.

But choices about which foods to eat are motivated by more than avoiding the bad; they are also motivated by seeking the good, such as fat and sugar.

We can't avoid the bad things that come with expansion.

But can "Dexter" can avoid the bad reviews that most other shows-turned-games have gotten?

It is up to each of us individually to avoid the bad choices that result in fatalities.

He seemed most surprised that he somehow avoided the bad outing or two that would have normalized his numbers.

It's certainly understandable that companies would want to avoid the bad publicity and put such matters behind them.