And it meant to avoid, through the war's Americanization, both the image of NATO's flailing and an eventual defeat on the ground.
Quite consciously, by leaving the book where it was I meant to avoid writing "under the influence" of its narrator, particularly as I had no intention of writing a review, or what some like to call a critique.
They have seen it as a means to avoid NGO and reputational flak, and to mitigate the rougher edges and consequences of capitalism.This defensiveness starts the argument on the wrong foot, certainly as far as business leaders should be concerned.
What Mr. Sekulow's point is in citing the current use of this phrase is unclear, other than it being a means to avoid the true history of our country's military oaths and the intent of the founders who wrote those oaths.
For left-wingers, once suspicious of nationalism, it has provided a means to avoid reappraising a statist creed largely abandoned elsewhere, including in the north European social democracies the nationalists idolise.
As Hannah Arendt wrote, "when all signs pointed to defeat", the goal was "no longer one of avoiding humiliating defeat but of finding ways and means to avoid admitting it and 'save face'".
The treatment of water as if it were as immobile as land may be useful in the short term, but it is fundamentally flawed as a means to avoid conflict as well as to ensure efficient, equitable, and sustainable management of water over the long term.
But Smith said the average surfer ingests 200ml of seawater for every surf, even if they mean to avoid it.
By doing so, he said, the court invited the "controversy, conflict and chaos" that Congress meant to avoid when it enacted Section 5 in 1887, in response to the electoral deadlock in the Hayes-Tilden presidential election of 1876.
For the record, every Muslim I know takes this verse seriously -- as we do every verse of the Qur'an -- and I find it an effective means to avoid harm, not create it.
