Sentence examples for evil to avoid from inspiring English sources
But Ms. Brewer, and a coalition of politically odd bedfellows, including the state teachers' union, business groups and office holders from both major parties, sold it as a necessary evil to avoid teacher layoffs and cuts to public safety.
Few lawmakers were enthusiastic about the legislation, but several described it as a necessary evil to avoid the first government shutdown since 2013, The Post's Erica Werner and Mike DeBonis report.
"Because the normal rule would be that it is a sin and a crime to produce pornography if you are a Muslim, and a sin to view it in private, and the only way you could justify it would be as a necessary evil to avoid a greater sin, like fornication".
But Il Giornale, a centre-right daily owned by the family of Berlusconi, claimed the decision to distribute the edition of the text, which includes critical notes by an Italian historian, aimed "to study what is evil to avoid its return".
One of the greatest achievements of the 20th century was our ability to work with the Soviet Union, a country that Reagan called an "evil empire," to avoid nuclear annihilation.
The International Olympic Committee and the World Gymnastics Federation seem to be performing see-no-evil backflips to avoid confronting China on the Yang case.
Class war is a great evil to be avoided at all cost except in a case where the interests of the American working class can be putatively advanced by punishing the third world poor.
The Panegyricus does not adopt a radically pacifist viewpoint, but it presents war as always an evil to be avoided and never to be undertaken in pursuit of false glory or conquest of new territories (CWE 27:50 61).
Then there are those, Cohen himself passionately among them, who don't see death as an evil to be avoided at all costs.
Their religion centres around two benevolent male deities and an evil female deity; offerings are made only to the evil goddess, in order to avoid ill fortune.
Google's motto is to avoid evil.
