Sentence examples for hitherto avoided from inspiring English sources

The incident marked a rare gaffe for Mr Obama, who has hitherto avoided any of careless remarks that jollified the reign of predecessor President Bush.

There is even a happy ending -- though the idea of Dame Diana's cool, ruthless Gertrude self-sacrificially rejecting her small-time Claudius smacks of a sentimentality Ms. Jones has hitherto avoided.

Mr. Arafat's feat was all the more impressive because the Bush administration, after initially trying to stay clear of the Middle East, tilted toward the Palestinians last fall, when President Bush called for a "state of Palestine" -- a formula Washington had hitherto avoided.

Svetlana Medvedeva, the wife of outgoing Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, has hitherto avoided a reputation for rock star living, but made a start this month by booking out the entire Hotel La Pace in Montecatini Terme for a week and showing up with her son and a 30-strong entourage, including bodyguards and translators.

Although there was no actual change to the rule, the forced votes of the CRA did succeed in exposing the stances of Senators and Representatives who had hitherto avoided the issue.

Hitherto, to avoid import duties of 18-28%, manufacturers have had to buy their raw material from the United States.

Hitherto, he had avoided getting too close to the regime in Teheran, in his aim to guarantee the independence of Iraq, and the Shiite community within it, from Iran.

Slowly, too, the advantages of arch and vault, avoided hitherto by Greek architects, were exploited; architecture was still basically that of mass on mass, however, and it was left to Rome to make significant progress in construction methods.

They will also have to be wary of antitrust watchdogs, even if they have largely avoided them hitherto.

In 1837 he armed 4,000 Christians to put down a rebellion that the Druzes had begun when threatened with conscription (hitherto Lebanese rulers had avoided direct clashes between the two groups).

It is hampered by a tight limit imposed by the new constitution engineered by Mr Correa and promulgated last October, which imposed a 12-month deadline for approving new regulatory measures.Mr Correa has hitherto managed to avoid the constant protests and public-sector strikes that beset his predecessors.