Sentence examples for form of avoidance from inspiring English sources

Professor Elias, of Rutgers, also says that endless hours of instant messaging can become an audiovisual form of avoidance, similar to drugs or alcohol.

The sex scenes between Foster and Basinger are brought off subtly, with gentle humor, but, in a case like this, tastefulness may also be a form of avoidance — a way of keeping to a tony surface when the situation calls out for emotion and mess.

However, after having experienced one or more panic attacks, subjects with PD develop a form of avoidance towards places (such as subways or cinemas) where they believe they will experience dyspnea/panic [14], and also become less explorative towards novel, open spaces, behavioural characteristics collectively named 'agoraphobia' [15].

Forty nine people (4.9%) reported engaging in one or other form of avoidance behaviour, whereas 377 (37.8%) said that they had carried out one or more of the three recommended behaviours.

And the act of giving and receiving the prescription can look like active engagement with the main dilemma but is in fact a form of avoidance, one of a number of strategies employed as means of not getting uncomfortable uncertainties and differences of opinion into the open [ 41].

Emotional processing theory emphasizes the role of providing corrective information and altering cognitive meaning elements of the fear schema as critical for recovery; in contrast, anger is viewed as a form of avoidance that impedes accessing the fear schema and recovery [ 5].

"Some forms of avoidance have become so aggressive that I think it is right to say these are ethical issues," he said, urging multinationals to "wake up and smell the coffee".

Some forms of avoidance have become so aggressive that I think it is right to say these are ethical issues and it is time to call for more responsibility.

"Some forms of avoidance have become so aggressive that I think it is right to say these are ethical issues," he told the World Economic Forum in January, urging multinationals to "wake up and smell the coffee".

Cameron said there was nothing wrong with sensible tax planning, but "some forms of avoidance have become so aggressive that I think it's time to call for more responsibility and for governments to act accordingly".

"Some forms of avoidance have become so aggressive that I think it is right to say these are ethical issues and it is time to call for more responsibility and for governments to act accordingly," he told an audience at Davos last January.