Sentence examples for but avoided massive from inspiring English sources

Scholes promptly gave the ball away for the goal that pulled City within a goal at 3-2, but avoided massive embarrassment and a stain on Ferguson's reputation as a managerial legend when United closed out a victory it had made uncomfortably close.

In 2011 the Netherlands avoided massive unemployment and drastic increases in bankruptcies, despite the worldwide economic crisis.

More immediately, he and Congress needed to negotiate a new fiscal plan that avoided massive cuts in defence and other domestic spending and sharp across-the-board tax increases.

If you still want to try to get in on the mortgage lending action, maybe buy Wells Fargo, as it's diversified into other bank lines and has avoided massive sub-prime lending.

Zucchini come in all shapes, but when shopping, avoid massive, older squash.

Chinese leadership has begun to recognise that stronger worker representation is necessary to avoid massive disturbances and strife, but the solutions contemplated are more mediation by the ACFTU and more sympathy from courts for suits by workers alleging labour-law violations, as Christian Caryl reported in Foreign Policy recently.

But Airbus has company in the drive to avoid massive cutbacks, even if it means risking Wall Street's wrath.

Interestingly, our data show that UPR is activated in both normal and transformed cells, but that only normal cells are able to cope with this stress, avoiding massive cell death.

Art Nutter is invisible to the investing public, but his work has had a big impact on tech firms seeking to avoid massive patent liabilities or to secure fat profit streams from licensing revenue.

"There is no time to waste if we are to avoid massive loss of life.

That's been my strategy to avoid massive bouts of depression".