Maybe you're trying out having a conversation where before you would have avoided it, or ignored it.
The paltry sum may have inspired Mr. Obama's strategists to begin explicitly encouraging donations to the "super PAC" — something they had avoided before since it conflicted with the spirit of Mr. Obama's public criticism of the Citizens United decision.
For Mr. Pennington, the public engagements have been a form of exposure therapy, pushing him to articulate bad memories and buried feelings that he had avoided before.
He had avoided race talk before the Reverend Wright controversy erupted.
The hearing, one he had avoided three times before but attended under renewed pressure from a judge, provided few answers about the violent period in Haiti that eventually ended with his downfall and the first, halting steps toward democracy.
Now, mice who had avoided the laser firing zone before sniffed around their enclosures looking for their former companions.
"I encourage dissent," he said, adding that a "cultural defect," in which employees had avoided criticizing the company, had existed before his arrival.
Ryan teased Kristy Lee Cook before admitting she had avoided the bottom three -- where she lives -- and was safe.
The US has taken a subtly different approach to the negotiations in the past day, with the special envoy for climate change, Todd Stern, speaking approvingly of the roadmap – a term he has avoided before, as the US dislikes the implication that there is a set route with a strict timetable and clear destination.
