Sentence examples for be aimed at avoiding from inspiring English sources

Although vague, the ideas appear to be aimed at avoiding what everyone, from city officials to neighbors, does not want: a repeat of Mission Bay.

The offer to resign appeared to be aimed at avoiding a destructive split in his governing Democratic Party, where there has been rising discontent with what many call Mr. Kan's plodding and indecisive response to the triple disaster.

Appointment of an emergency financial manager would be aimed at avoiding some worse fate — bankruptcy or even default — but it would almost certainly draw anger from some Detroiters, who firmly believe that municipal leaders can repair their own city and who had expressed dismay at the earlier, lesser step of an oversight board.

The prevention measures applied should be aimed at avoiding further contact with styrene-contaminated drinking water until concentrations reached low levels.

Many of the Martinos Center's subject screening criteria are aimed at avoiding these hazards.

The plan to sell off state assets, including a bank, is aimed at avoiding a bailout.

"Everything we do is aimed at avoiding a 'handoff' there is no 'technology transfer'.

Newhouse said the government's strategy in forcibly removing Abyan was aimed "at avoiding due process and any scrutiny".

Mark Bardell, also a corporate partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, works in non-contentious mergers and acquisitions, much of which is aimed at avoiding disputes.

But the plan for Diablo Canyon, which began operating in 1985 and stirred controversy from the start, is aimed at avoiding that, its proponents say.

As I wrote in 2009: [The move] is aimed at avoiding big ecological disruptions as the expanding summer retreats of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean expose virgin waters.