Sentence examples for desire to avoid a from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it was the desire to avoid a hostile crowd.

She attributes this decision to the administration's desire to avoid a new tax, but this was not the only consideration.

"It has always been our desire to avoid a senseless courtroom fight," Mr. Rubenstein wrote in a statement.

He said no one from the Bush camp had mentioned a desire to avoid a floor fight to him.

Prosecutors have expressed their desire to avoid a trial, as it would probably force Jaycee Dugard to testify.

Even Homer Jones — the Giants receiver widely credited with the game's first spike, in 1965 — admitted that his move was born from a desire to avoid a fine.

Representative David R. Obey Democrat of Wisconsin, said he understood the Republicans' desire to "avoid an argument," even as he egged them on.

Indeed, if the desire to avoid an adverse judgment caused cooler heads in the administration to prevail, what is wrong with that?

The Supreme Court also rejected the school's contention that its desire to avoid an establishment-clause violation warranted its exclusion of the club.

But even this failure was not without honour: his reluctance to go to the country earlier had largely reflected his desire to avoid an election fought, as he saw it, along class-warfare lines.

This nation of 80 million must balance a proud democratic tradition with a desire to avoid an attack such as the one on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, while countering an unexpected increase of anti-Muslim sentiment.