Sentence examples for descended to avoid from inspiring English sources

I descended to avoid the chop – not to mention the sour-dishcloth stink of rotting salmon – and entered a dense cloud of migrating fish.

On the fateful night of July 1, the Swiss controller ordered the pilot of the Russian Tupolev Tu-154, to descend to avoid the Boeing, operated by the overnight courier service DHL Worldwide Express.

The lone controller on duty ordered the pilot of the Russian plane, a Tupolev Tu-154 operated by Bashkirian Airlines, to descend to avoid the cargo plane, a Boeing 757 operated by DHL Worldwide.

To avoid localised disturbance the dive team entered the water at least 20 m from the site marker buoy, descended to the appropriate depth (2 3 m deep, 1 m above the substratum) and prepared for the survey (following [3]).

They descended to the 44th floor.

Finally, I descended to the ballroom.

The helicopter descended to four hundred and fifty feet.

Instead, they descended to subprime hell.

He descended to the dead.

Accounts from all sides suggest that Ashton and Schmid are making rather a good fist of it – the Iranians are still at the table (with a third round of talks scheduled for Moscow in mid-June) – and that the countries participating have remained sufficiently united to avoid descending into mutual recriminations.

The natural theology which flourished in the age after Isaac Newton led to an increased emphasis on rationalism in religion but it was important for the clergy to avoid descending into deism, and to combine their natural theologies with a belief in Scripture, and with what More would have called the "Grand Mysteries" of religion.