Sentence examples for endeavouring to avoid from inspiring English sources

— Isaac Newton UNDISCOVERED SHORES The footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to her shifts, to make many doublings and turnings, and to use some kind of art in endeavouring to avoid our discovery.

Many others who had been cut off on the northern shore of the Danube ran for their lives amongst the reed-beds, vainly endeavouring to avoid the Allied sabres.

With half of the Internet already potentially using their services, privacy snafus are something Facebook endeavours to avoid at all cost.

The brand currently keeps 110 shades of eye shadow on counter (whittled down from a planned 250) – far more than the average brand's 45, and Box has endeavoured to avoid labelling her products – as much as trading standards will allow – in order to challenge users' expectations and encourage them to be more playful with their application.

It was in this way that they had endeavoured to avoid introducing Aristotelian forms and qualities, which they regarded as incomprehensible from an ontological point of view.

In our use of narrative enquiry to examine our experiences and trajectories within the CFL community, we have, as noted, endeavoured to avoid essentialization of educational schema (Dervin 2009 20111).

In one article he wrote that fascism "endeavours to avoid the egotistical attitude of laissez faire and the inertia of socialism".

Athletes should therefore endeavour to avoid contact with persons showing signs of upper airway infections, particularly while undertaking intensive training schedules and before major competitions.

But, of course, although I know that her various abrasions and bruises are self-inflicted - despite my every endeavour to avoid them - no one else does.

They all seek a break with the past; endeavour to avoid violence; have surprised political elites; call for national unity and a civic state; and were all sparked by young people.

Our concern about that kind of solution (aside from the, perhaps obvious, difficulty of reaching a consensus), is that the field may not be mature enough to put any of these questions to bed, and given that it would be damaging to the legitimacy of the empirical bioethics endeavour to try to avoid them.