Sentence examples for he strives to avoid from inspiring English sources

He strives to avoid the sort of "group-think" that led to Vietnam.

In the book he has produced to mark his golden summer, Bringing Home the Ashes, he says he strives to avoid "playing like a robot".

It was a night that was loaded with low expectations – the power of Mr Obama's speeches may have diminished the longer he has been office – yet, it was one that bore high stakes for him and he strives to avoid lame duck status and revive the fortunes of his party as November's mid-term congressional elections approach.

At a much-anticipated news conference in which he strove to avoid being swept into the blood sport of Italian party politics, he said that he would give political forces "appreciation, encouragement and, if asked, my guidance".

Steinbeck was guilty occasionally of mawkishness - particularly in the later books, when celebrity, partly unwanted, had distanced him from his subject matter - but although he looked caringly on the poor, he strove to avoid condescension.

Small wonder that, in this week's debate, he strove to avoid discussing race, preferring to talk about "low-income people" and the need to "bring the country together".There were signs in Nevada that some damage may already have been done.

Mr. Porter said he strove to avoid "extreme stylization" and "eccentric interpretations," explaining in an interview with The Times in 1977 that classic plays demanded "a kind of orthodoxy". At the same time, he said, his goal was to make them realistic to modern audiences.

And yet in his pictures he still strives to avoid didacticism.

In his utter powerlessness, he desperately strives to avoid additional cruelty by ingratiating himself with his captors and obeying their kinky demands.

In this descent towards an ever-increasing horror, which the reader intuits but can't quite make out until the very end, Kaddish takes on the ancient role of the Fool travelling through the hellish landscape that his elders and betters have created, towards a conclusion foretold that he nevertheless strives to avoid.

Stubbornly, David still strives to avoid a fate that he has been told is unavoidable.