Sentence examples for being to avoid a from inspiring English sources

The financial-regulation bill that passed in 2010, for instance, contained a provision that shareholders with five per cent of a corporation's stock could add names to the ballot for members of the board — the idea being to avoid a board that was handpicked by the C.E.O.

The financial-regulation bill that passed in 2010, for instance, contained a provision that shareholders with five per cent of a corporation's stock could add names to the ballot for members of the board the idea being to avoid a board that was handpicked by the C.E.O.

The point was to avoid a template.

The goal was to avoid a stall.

It was to avoid a Third World War.

Their new priority is to avoid a Russian takeover.

Step Three was to avoid a genuinely contested presidential election.

What the establishment really wanted was to avoid a scandal.

His first job was to avoid a pair.

A primary incentive to reach a settlement was to avoid a costly trial.

Praise was unknown; the best hope was to avoid a withering putdown.