Sentence examples for gain to avoid from inspiring English sources

Mr. Liberman noted that there are many reasons for lying: for personal gain, to avoid harm, to protect someone's feelings or to avoid shame or embarrassment.

In the 1950s, for instance, pregnant women were urged to strictly limit their weight gain to avoid pre-eclampsia, a syndrome characterized by high blood pressure, fluid retention and kidney problems.

cAn appropriate threshold for the beam gain is -4.3d dB of the maximum beam gain to avoid gaps in the coverage area.

Human adults and children respond negatively to inequity, even sacrificing personal gain to avoid both disadvantageous (more for you, less for me) and advantageous (more for me, less for you) resource allocations.

In our study, parents were willing to pay more per incremental health gain to avoid vaccine adverse events (~$60,000 per QALY) compared to avoiding health states associated with GAS disease (~$18,000 to $36,000 per QALY).

Each slide was scanned at two different gain settings, namely, a low gain to avoid detector saturation by high-amplitude signals and high gain to improve signal detection from weakly expressed genes.

Especially, if the formation does not have any uncertainties, the designer can simply set the controller via an appropriate choice of control gains to avoid system actuator saturation.

"Unfortunately, some are rushing to judgment for political gain or to avoid blame," the statement added.

A Congressionally mandated law provides that as many as 1,000 people yearly can gain asylum to avoid persecution on that basis.

He prorogued parliament twice for political gain, first to avoid a potential vote of non-confidence, and second to avoid House of Commons scrutiny of transfer of Afghan detainees at high risk of torture.

In malingering, by contrast, the person stimulates or exaggerates an illness or disability to obtain some kind of discernible personal gain or to avoid an unpleasant situation; e.g., a prison inmate may simulate madness to obtain more-comfortable living conditions.