Trustees have invoked "the military," Congressional rules and faculty opposition for decades to avoid their obligation to formally recognize the R.O.T.C.
Many climate scientists are calling for an end to fossil fuels in the next several decades to avoid severe climate change.
James Mann, a China expert and visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies, said the Chinese had used this strategy for decades to avoid improving their policies on human rights in Tibet, missile nonproliferation and protecting intellectual property rights.
I had been running for four decades to avoid something like this.
"Should we have scrapped plans for the many new, sorely needed academic buildings that will serve our community for decades to avoid a temporary dislocation of sports facilities?" she asked in an e-mail.
The first Broadway theaters were established in lower Manhattan in the early 19th century, and they migrated north toward Union Square and then Madison Square and Herald Square in later decades to avoid crowded immigrant neighborhoods.
However, Ameziane, who had lived in Canada and Austria and once worked as a chef before moving to Afghanistan prior to 9/11, refused to be repatriated to Algeria, a country he fled more than two decades ago to avoid the civil war that saw the persecution of ethnic Berbers like him.
"GM hid this dangerous, life-threatening defect from my clients and all other Cobalt drivers for over a decade just to avoid the cost of a recall," said a lawyer for the families, Robert Hilliard of Hilliard Munoz Gonzales, in a statement.
Letting the Tribal Areas fester and fend for themselves has been part of Pakistani government doctrine for decades in order to avoid the question of Pashtun statehood.
As kids, we can't yet vote or run for government, however scientists say there's only about a decade left for us to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
