Sentence examples for in order to avoid great from inspiring English sources

The cover image of the singer seemed to tell the story of a man who, perhaps in order to avoid great pain, had entered oblivion, but done so in style, with a cool cigarette sticking straight out of his mouth.

In order to avoid great errors in K b determination, the wavelength of complex absorption is chosen for each ligand to correspond to the requested absorption range (0.1 <A < 0.9) [47].

Venous blood from 1 clinically healthy 11-year-old mare was used in order to avoid great variability in the GF, cytokine and HA concentrations in the PRG supernatants used in the experiments.

"It may often be expedient to submit; it may even sometimes be morally right to do so in order to avoid a greater evil; but submission is not inherently beautiful – it is generally cowardly and frequently morally wrong".

When the principal cannot severely punish shirking and agents are completely naïve, the second-best solution entails allowing a present-biased agent to slack-off in order to avoid a greater loss due to shirking.

Henry IV had founded his title to the throne on the descent of Lancaster from Henry III in order to avoid the greater claim of the heirs of Gaunt's elder brother Lionel, duke of Clarence.

For the utilitarian may simply hold that the best explanation for the rationality of a given person incurring some cost for herself in order to avoid some greater cost for herself is the unrestricted rationality of minimizing net costs (or maximizing net benefits).

In short, it is time for the Israelis and Palestinians to enter a pas de deux of enemies in order to avoid a greater danger.

The losses to the economy, as people shuffle round their finances in order to avoid it, are greater than the revenue it brings in.

But despite that, they felt they had no choice but to bail out the banks, in order to avoid an even greater economic calamity.

Many Pueblos, both eastern and western, took their traditional practices underground during the colonial period in order to avoid persecution; to a great extent they continue to protect their traditional cultures with silence.