Sentence examples for initially to avoid from inspiring English sources

Cable boxes weren't always a necessary part of the setup, but the FCC allowed the device to become mandatory recently, initially to avoid piracy.

Saints chief executive Mike Rush opted to keep his counsel, initially to avoid detracting from the glory of his club's 14-6 triumph, but also to allow the normal disciplinary procedure to take place.

But still, it helps to provide an illuminating account of inter-trinitarian relations, and it does so in a way that seems (at least initially) to avoid both modalism and polytheism.

Maybe it was this hard-earned (and hard-learned) lesson that led me initially to avoid Morgan Spurlock's Supersize Me.

Water rather than buffered saline was used initially to avoid possible damage to the silver nanorods by chloride ions, and therefore parallel samples were also processed in 10 mM phosphate-buffered saline (PBS, pH 7.2) to assess loss of viability in water.

Terms were generally restricted to title only, at least initially, to avoid impossibly large numbers of references using words with many other common meanings (such as relative risk).

Greece is also resorting to a move that European officials initially wanted to avoid at all costs.

The speaker initially wants to avoid walking the Ridgeway so as to avoid encountering this ghost, but he comes to realise that following the path is the only way that he can reconnect with his, and their, past.

The abdominal issue resulted in Walker missing out on England's World Cup squad and saw him undergo lower abdominal surgery in September, a move the north Londoners had initially hoped to avoid.

DealBook reported last week that JPMorgan adopted a program called Sons and Daughters that initially sought to avoid the appearance of favoritism for the offspring of officials but morphed into a means to lower the hiring requirements.

When Mr. Davis initially vowed to avoid rate increases at all costs, a stance most experts saw as unrealistic, legislators feared he was setting them up to take the fall for increases that even he now acknowledges are possible, if not certain.