Sentence examples for grateful to avoid from inspiring English sources

NATO Soldiers in Helmand province see the expanse of purple and pink blossoms flashing by, but they do little to stop drug production; they worry instead about Taliban fighters mingling among the villagers, and are grateful to avoid being shot down.Yet the opium economy and the insurgency are mutually reinforcing; drugs finance the Taliban, while their violence encourages poppy cultivation.

Most kids enjoy dressing up as soldiers or princesses at some point in their development; to be required to continue to do so into a privileged, circumscribed adulthood, overseen by members of an ever-watchful media, is a fate that most of us would be grateful to avoid.

Employes, too, are likely to be grateful to avoid the upheaval an outsider would have brought, as MKM Partners analyst Israel Hernandez said last month when Nadella's name was floated: "We believe the hiring of an insider is also likely to have a positive impact on employee morale as an external hire would likely have contributed to a significant change in the corporate culture".

Much better to keep Ukraine smouldering than to have it burst into flame.Mr Putin seems to be hoping that a grateful world, desperate to avoid conflict, will agree to what he has sought all along: a federation of Ukraine that blocks it from moving towards the European Union and NATO, as well as the uncontested annexation of Crimea.

In that respect, all the English clubs will be grateful to have avoided Astana, making their debut in the competition as Kazakhstan's representatives, and the possibility of a 7,000-mile 7,000-mile featuroundsix-and-a-half-hour flightripach way.

My mother was grateful to cigarettes; they allowed her to avoid dementia.

An educated man with a violent streak, fearful of his genetic inheritance and determined to avoid alcohol, Etienne is grateful for the manual labour and new start in life that he is offered underground.

He speaks to a luminous conundrum: how is it that many families "have ended up grateful for experiences they would have done anything to avoid"?

"This book's conundrum," he writes, "is that most of the families described here ended up grateful for experiences they would have done anything to avoid".

This is the book's central conundrum: most of the families he describes are deeply grateful for the very experiences they would have sacrificed everything to avoid.

The Studio-As-Evil-Adversary is one of the many cliches that "House" has managed to avoid, and for that the cast and crew are deeply grateful.