Sentence examples for generally to avoid from inspiring English sources

This is good news for those who want laws to be based on broad consensus and generally to avoid what James Madison called "public instability".

But unless they are issuing threats to foreign adversaries (as Mr. Obama did with Iran, and as former PresidentGeorge W. Bush did with the Iraqi dictator,Saddam Hussein), they try generally to avoid boxing themselves into corners with dates certain.

With sequels, the strategy is generally to avoid adding a numeral, and to come up with a subtitle that makes the movie seem less of a rehash and more worthy of standing on its own.

That policy enabled the Ottomans generally to avoid local resistance by assuring rulers and subjects that their lives, properties, traditions, and positions would be preserved if they peacefully accepted Ottoman rule.

"Generally, to avoid being involved in arbitrarily deciding which displays are appropriate and which are not, many boards have decided to ban any individual displays observable from outside the building," said Arthur I. Weinstein, a Manhattan lawyer and the vice president of the Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums.

He reports a study showing an "apparent willingness" among a subgroup of Parkinson's patients "to associate with a socially untrustworthy individual," along with its near-opposite, a tendency of parkinsonians generally to avoid risks and social interaction, and he attributes both to failures in "mentalizing abilities" (otherwise known, I believe, as thinking).

Black bears generally try to avoid people.

This is the kind of assignment that Guo is now generally able to avoid.

Academy officials are generally careful to avoid seeming to favor any particular Oscar contender.

Mr. Gelb said that the Met generally tried to avoid using body microphones.

A toothache recently led Williams to pop a few Advil, but he generally tries to avoid Western medicine.