Sentence examples for chiefly to avoid from inspiring English sources

It has been holding back chiefly to avoid pushing more Serb voters towards Mr Nikolic.

Mr. Clinton's most potent argument may be the one he hasn't made in public, chiefly to avoid offending two of America's closest allies.

With equal willfulness, he had the actors speak in a Scottish burr, chiefly to avoid both the British accent that he dismissed as "BBC" and the regional accents of his American cast; it also gave the words a lilting strangeness ("so right," Welles told Peter Bogdanovich, "for all that gooseflesh and grue").

This is chiefly to avoid confounding different levels of replication (here it would be confounding variation between resistance mutations with variation between resistance mechanisms).

It's just that in this case, as in so many others, people's reluctance to "judge" is often chiefly exercised as an excuse to avoid uncomfortable facts.

In that line of thinking, those Americans who have elected to opt out of body scans and instead put themselves in arm's way of the T.S.A. would be doing so chiefly out of a desire to avoid exposure, less to the still-uncertain long-term effects of "safe levels" of radiation and microwaves than to the scrutiny of parts of them that they would prefer remain unseen.

The taskforce has ten recommendations about how to avoid regulatory creep: they chiefly amount to better consultation and clearer thinking.

So far, the military appears to be resisting that — ordering the deployment chiefly of engineering, medical, and logistical units, and giving them instructions to avoid direct interaction with migrants.

Particularly in the opening comment and the news, Fielding injected a degree of wit or "liveliness" not seen in his previous publications; he stated in the first number that he planned to avoid the "dullness" seen in other contemporary periodicals: Discussion in the Journal was chiefly concerned with matters of literary criticism, and "the social and moral health of the body politic".

Birth tourism is nothing new and not an exclusively Chinese phenomenon, either but while it's often said that Chinese women travel to America to give birth chiefly to obtain citizenship and passports for their children, many also seek better and cheaper health care and to avoid fines for having extra children.

Wanting to avoid the chaos of a multi-party system makes some sense; but the confusion they cause applies chiefly to a parliamentary system, which the United States does not have.