The Swedish committee is believed to avoid controversial people and issues.
He admitted he had entered No 10 through the back door after being asked to, he believed, to avoid photographers.
Because the demons were believed to avoid light, the Chinese who were influenced by Daoism and folk religions used bonfires, firecrackers, and torches to ward off the guei.
The IEA stayed aloof from party politics—essential, Mr Harris believed, to avoid embroilment in "vote-getting, lying and cheating"—but sought to change the intellectual climate in which politicians had to operate.
Bajul Shah of XXIV Old Buildings has numerous leasing disputes on his CV, but the case he cites as particularly interesting is the "very unusual" Blue Sky One Ltd & Ors v Blue Airways, which concerned three Boeing 747s acquired by a British company to provide capacity to an Iranian airline in a "complicated structure" that was believed to avoid falling foul of US sanctions against Iran.
She is an autodidact in literature and philosophy, but conceals it to keep her job and, she believes, to avoid the condemnation of the building's tenants.
In the American-Iraqi confrontation, Iran's task, they believe, is to avoid behaviour that would provoke George Bush into putting Iran and "regime change" into the same sentence.Mr Khatami alone can plot such a course.
And while raising more money from high-income Americans is a first step, most economists believe that to avoid cuts in health benefits the government must raise taxes on the middle class.
Mainstream scientists believe that to avoid disastrous increases in the sea levels and widespread drought, the rise in global temperatures by 2050 should not exceed 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
Once social utility is put aside, the reality in question is just whatever the patient had better believe in to avoid getting locked up, or to become a little less unhappy.
