President Hamid Karzai called on American-led forces to apply themselves more earnestly to avoiding civilian casualties and to check intelligence reports more carefully before taking offensive action.
There's a coy coupling that strains so earnestly to avoid lust as to be wholly bloodless; the Garden of Eden was surely more exciting than this.
Salary history questions can, in fact, introduce bias and discrimination into the recruitment process of a company earnestly trying to avoid it.
To counter this impression, Mr Cameron talked earnestly of spreading the educational advantages he had enjoyed himself (while avoiding naming his private school, Eton).
On Monday, in the Chinese government's first public response to the stalemate in Washington, Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao urged the United States to "earnestly take steps" to avoid a debt default to ensure the safety of Chinese investments and the global economic recovery.
Understandably, scientists generally behave most earnestly in order to avoid everything that may question their competence and reliability.
Apart from its sadness, Tim Russert's death this month at 58 was deeply unsettling to many people who, like him, had been earnestly following their doctors' advice on drugs, diet and exercise in hopes of avoiding a heart attack.
Comic after comic went up and avoided anything topical, other than earnestly thanking the audience for being there.
Release the guilt and seek earnestly to repent instead --- pray for the strength and wisdom to avoid your guilt-causing mistake in the future, starting right now.
I've found this little shop where I can buy Ribena and PG Tips, so I can get all those things that I miss from home, although I rarely buy Cadbury chocolate there because it doesn't seem to travel very well; and the Walkers crisps are to be avoided since they're usually all crushed," she cautions earnestly.
