All this noisy, steamy sex could be avoided if the breeding industry embraced artificial insemination (AI).
And could tax increases be avoided if the money collected were spent more efficiently?
Death can be avoided if the antivenoms now available against most lethal species are administered.
The governor's office said that layoffs could be avoided if the union agreed to make concessions.
Similarly, coral reef destruction and extreme sea level rises might be avoided if the 1.5C limit is achieved.
"I can't even express how much anguish would be avoided if the press would leave us our privacy".
All of this could, of course, be avoided, if the designers, and the people who commission them, were better equipped to do their jobs.
Long Island's confusion about contingency could be avoided if the State Legislature were to pass the "truth in voting" law proposed by State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle.
The looming catastrophe can be avoided if the world's wheat scientists pull together to develop a new generation of stem-rust-resistant varieties of wheat.
The undignified tit-for-tat personal attacks between Trump and Clinton could be avoided if the country were run by an artificial intelligence, Istvan adds.
Experts on family foundations say many common pitfalls can be avoided if the donors make their intentions clear from the start.
