Sentence examples for happily avoided from inspiring English sources

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Even the Croatian minister of defence, having happily avoided The Hague tribunal, was buried to the song 'Candle in the Wind'".

When the Ashmolean was faced with the possible introduction of entrance charges (happily avoided at the last moment), he was sensitive to the problem, and, albeit reluctantly, voted in favour.

In the style of the Parliamentary Draftsmen of that time, many of its provisions were drafted with a complexity which was happily avoided in the 1996 Act", and criticises the failure to achieve more than minor reform of existing law.

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Nature offers us cancer, infections and heart disease, which we happily avoid and do our best to treat.

How many women would happily avoid single motherhood if they had easy access to birth control and the education and confidence to insist on using it consistently?

After a few hearty laughs and the profuse apologies of Conrad Bain, good old Mr Wilkes happily avoids a lengthy stretch at Rikers Island.

Suitcases (and worse) pressing into my coccyx, Metro horoscopes, vomit, delays and the smell of someone else's sweaty armpits – I happily avoid them.

That is, she was happily avoiding day-old tuna salad and being asked to "grab the rudder for a second" and reading Vanity Fair by the land line instead.

If you hire from Wicked Campervans in north London you get a bed and wheels thrown in, happily avoiding the crowds by parking in the burbs.

Happily, Ms. Leonard avoided that, but perhaps by too wide a margin.

NATO and Russia both had planes in the sky over the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s – happily they avoided the sort of incident which threatens to set the old adversaries at loggerheads once again.

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