Sentence examples for instance to avoid from inspiring English sources

As it might, for instance, to avoid capture by territorial Martians.

These sensory inputs can serve as a cue to change their ongoing motor patterns, for instance to avoid obstacles.

For instance, to avoid the need to ventilate the fire by breaking stained-glass windows, firefighters drew smoke through the baptistry, which adjoins the north transept.

Consumers who have variations that the company says slow this process are advised, for instance, to avoid well-done red meats, which have higher levels of certain toxins.

It is important, for instance, to avoid the number "four" (si), because it sounds like the word for death; any words and their homonyms related to death, illness, or bankruptcy are inauspicious.

His parties are casual, and so are his cooking techniques: for instance, to avoid a spatter of lime juice and garlic from a monster-size mortar and pestle, he drapes a plastic grocery bag over the top of the bowl.

The use of minimum shear reinforcement is recommended in many instances to avoid such failure.

In some instances, to avoid alerting a new insurance company to a past medical history, a patient must skip cancer checkups for several months.

Mr. Bloomberg, who will need the Bush administration's financial help in getting through the city's budget woes next year, has been careful in other instances to avoid promises to directly lobby the White House.

Ensuring that a particular result is in agreement with that obtained by another toolkit can act as a sanity check in such instances to avoid errors.

This is an important case in a closed-loop system which, for instance, has to avoid a reflex triggered by the x0 signal (Porr and Wörgötter 2003; Porr et al. 2003; Krichmar et al. 2005).