Sentence examples for avoids specifying from inspiring English sources

The passive voice avoids specifying who or what did, does, or will do the action of the verb.

The human figure is clearly in European costume, but authorities differ as to whether it represents a soldier or civilian; the current text on the V&A website avoids specifying, other than describing the figure as "European".

Mx, n.: a title used before a person's surname or full name by those who wish to avoid specifying their gender or by those who prefer not to identify themselves as male or female.

With his students, he launched the BOOM (Berkeley Orders of Magnitude) project to develop a new programming model for distributed computers that helps programmers avoid specifying the steps of a computation in a particular order.

American officials would not provide evidence for the new accusations against Hezbollah, and they avoided specifying whether its operatives were engaged in combat inside Syria, as some anti-Assad fighters have asserted.

He was careful to avoid specifying a time frame, but he told Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican, "We would like to get back to an all-Treasury portfolio within a reasonable amount of time".

On the other hand, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its influential 2007 report, expressly avoided specifying tipping points and instead concluded simply that the gradient of risk for a host of "large-scale discontinuities" increased with each degree of warming.

But he has avoided specifying how he would pay for the transition to the investment accounts, or saying what other measures he would back to ensure that Social Security can pay promised benefits to the 76 million baby boomers after they retire in coming decades.

Simple visualization such as the observed frequency in Figures 1 and 2 is always helpful to avoid specifying a highly inappropriate model.

Because some countries and disciplines emphasize Ph.D. degrees and others master's degrees, and because of some complexities about funding, the best approach is to avoid specifying a preference for a particular degree until the interview stage.

This is a tactic that let's him avoid specifying any particular cuts.