Sentence examples for being held to avoid from inspiring English sources

He announces to would-be passengers that they are being held to avoid overcrowding and will be allowed through as soon as possible; keeping them informed is the basic principle, he says.

The distinction was pointed out by the district court, which said that the Constitution of the State of Texas 'has never been held to avoid a police statute dealing directly with physical things in the interest of the public welfare, and touching contractual relationships only incidentally as they may have attached to those physical things prior to the passage of the statute.' 14 F.Supp.

The important thing is to make sure we get the right result from any referendum which is held to avoid the catastrophe for the country's economy and our political standing in the world if we were to be so very, very reckless as to leave the European Union".

X dodges can be held to avoid (a lot of) enemy attacks, up to a point.

X dodges, or can be held to avoid (a lot of) enemy attacks, up to a point.

All the AI workshops were held to avoid clinical sessions and when hospital personnel were relatively free.

For policy makers, individual interviews were held to avoid power imbalance within the group, and because it was more feasible to reach them in that way.

It can give the impression that a writer wants to make an assertion but also wants to leave enough wiggle room to avoid being held to it.

And given the broader costs to society of child poverty, not better for anyone else – except, perhaps, a government that we suspect may be trying to avoid being held to account.

Freedom from fact-checking may yield great literature, but for Clare the habits of art have infected the unwritten world of her daily life, where fiction becomes tantamount to lying: a means to avoid being held to account.

"The Abbott government has gagged debate in the parliament to avoid being held to account for seeking to discredit a Western Australian shipping company representative who blew the whistle on the job-destroying nature of proposed new shipping laws".