Sentence examples for favor to avoid from inspiring English sources
Now picture two other sons of privilege, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney; when called to serve their country in Vietnam, they pulled every string and called in every favor to avoid going to combat.
He earned Mrs. Clinton an advance of $8 million by auctioning her book, a move she favored to avoid the appearance "of a sweetheart deal," she said.
In any case, Rather got the broadcast, and he told viewers that CBS had dug up "new documents and new information" revealing that Bush had benefitted from political favors to avoid the draft.
This has two advantages: 1) High-velocity UE might pass through the picocell quickly and should therefore not be favored to avoid PPs, and 2) the channel conditions of low-velocity UE changes slowly which may result, especially for slow-moving cell-edge UE, in poor rates if they are not allocated to many RBs.
He also favored a top floor to avoid the clomping of neighbors above.
Yet a third way that Kant gives priority to morality is that Kant insists that children not be taught about religion until they are familiar with basic moral concepts and principles; otherwise, they may think, for example, that the reason one should act rightly is to hope for God's favor and to avoid God's punishment.
After a week full of aches, pains and nasty surprises, Venus Williams proved today that it was indeed possible for a heavily favored player to avoid an upset at this Australian Open.
often lies to obtain goods or favors or to avoid obligations (i.e., "cons" others).
Ahead of the vote, he encouraged his colleagues in the House to vote in favor of it to avoid "this Wall Street problem infecting Main Street".
Audits and investigations have uncovered cases in which oil company executives used bribes, favors and threats to avoid citations for noncompliance, which can lead to heavy fines or other penalties.
This could be due to the fact that the areas are open and therefore are favored by animals to avoid predation.
