In France especially, the late 1990s also represented a turning point in a national narrative that had long avoided acknowledging the state's wartime collaboration with Nazi Germany.
Because the metro area's population is 26% black, the whiter counties have long avoided anything that might bring them any closer to the black core.
LONDON — The euro zone's woes are finally taking their toll on Germany, the European economic powerhouse that has long avoided the worst of the crisis that began two and a half years ago.
The media-shy Aleottis have long avoided the attention that usually accompanies large fortunes.
If by "war on cops," the pro-law enforcement crowd meant "a watershed moment when people began reacting to disturbing incidents with aggressive calls for systemic change to a profession that has long avoided it," perhaps they'd be right.
The Pentagon scrubbed its latest National Defense Strategy of all references to climate change, an Orwellian rhetorical shift away from a scientific reality at an agency that has long avoided the issue's politics.
Mr. Rogge has long avoided criticizing China, saying that pressing the government on Tibet and other issues was likely to backfire.
Mr. de Maizière has lamented, for instance, that she has long avoided him (he declined, as did others, to be interviewed for this article).
This year, because his budgeting practices have helped push the county to the brink of bankruptcy, Mr. Gulotta, whose political career has been jeopardized, has been forced to abandon those tactics and take up others that he has long avoided, like raising taxes and laying off county workers.
Of course, this is hardly a new strategy -- but it is one that the Mets have long avoided to their peril.
