Sentence examples for had sought to avoid from inspiring English sources

Mr Cameron has been bruised by being forced to accept a plan he had sought to avoid.

The potential for the administration to find itself enmeshed in intractable problems it had sought to avoid is enormous.

Best Buy had sought to avoid having a prolonged fight with Mr. Schulze during the holiday season, which the company felt would be debilitating.

Mr. Dodd's statement did not say whether the China Film Group would be required to pay the 2 percent tax, which it had sought to avoid.

The event Edgar had feared, and had sought to avoid by employing 2 muscular announcers and establishing a rigid program schedule, occured after he died.

The commission of inquiry concluded in its report that NATO had sought to avoid civilian casualties in "a highly precise campaign" involving thousands of attack sorties.

This time Mr. Abe has sought to avoid appearing too extreme.

That stance was echoed by Hezbollah, which has sought to avoid all-out war in Lebanon.

No great conflagration between us and Iran has occurred — because both countries have sought to avoid one.

The courtiers of modern tyrants have sought to avoid the inconvenience of death by creating new hereditary monarchies.

That is precisely what Mr. Snyder, an American Jew who spent 22 years at the Museum of Modern Art, has sought to avoid.