Sentence examples for effort to avoid taking from inspiring English sources

"If indeed there is calm and there is no terror, Israel will make every effort to avoid taking action against terrorists," Mr. Sharon said Sunday.

Father Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said in a statement, "The recall of the ambassador is by no means an effort to avoid taking responsibility for what might possibly be verified".

"I've heard some folks try to dodge the evidence by saying they're not scientists; that we don't have enough information to act," he continued, in a comment clearly aimed at Republican politicians who have used that line in an effort to avoid taking a position on the reliability of climate science.

"The effort of the contemporary laws of war is to avoid taking sides," Mr. Witt said.

While managers of other Fidelity international funds usually pick stocks and then consider what macroeconomic factors might affect performance, Mr. Carlson looks first at countries, in an effort to avoid the upheavals that take down even the best investments in emerging economies.

In an effort to avoid financial collapse, the government took control on Tuesday of the country's second-largest bank — its second takeover in two weeks.

Recommended safety precautions include wearing protective gloves and clothing, and taking every effort to avoid being bitten or scratched.

Already trailing in the national popular vote, Mr. Bush should take every effort to avoid being the beneficiary of a hasty, incomplete vote count in Florida.

What was billed as a "battle" was in fact a highly choreographed effort to avoid anything of the remotest interest actually taking place.

Some patients expressed a preference for restriction of daily physical activity instead of taking medication, preferring to avoid physical effort to avoid symptoms and thus decreasing the perceived need for asthma controller medication.

For many of the inmates living in Fiske, it takes a conscious daily effort to avoid going back to their old ways.