There he would have had to "knowingly" avoid it because the majority of soya and corn grown there are the genetically modified varieties.
The amendment would deem such contracts unenforceable if the parties to a swaps contract -- a type of derivative that involves regular payments over a specified time period -- knowingly avoid a clearinghouse.
"Having completed almost 25 years [sic] service in the Mounted Police," he wrote in one 1999 fax that would later be used as evidence against him, "it would not be my position or intention to knowingly avoid the laws of any country".
If the High Court reviews the state Blaine Amendments, I hope the Justices will recognize that the founders knowingly decided to avoid state entanglement with religious establishments.
And for those of us who are Jewish, it would be too painful to have to tell our own children and grandchildren that we were actually given a chance to avoid knowingly electing an administration that harbored such people and views and that we ignored this, an opportunity that millions of our ancestors in Nazi Germany never had.
An obscure provision of a federal statute adopted in 1988 allows the S.E.C. to seek a triple penalty for any profits or losses avoided when a "controlling person" knowingly or recklessly fails "to establish, maintain, or enforce any policy or procedure" against insider trading.
In 1988, Congress adopted the Insider Trading and Securities Fraud Enforcement Act to allow the S.E.C. to seek a penalty of up to three times the gain or loss avoided when a controlling person knowingly or recklessly failed to "establish, maintain or enforce any policy or procedure" designed to prevent insider trading.
It was wrong because he intentionally and knowingly caused immense suffering that could have been avoided through an alternative course of action.
Here, Allen gets the tone exactly right, simultaneously avoiding and knowingly mocking the kind of historical pastiche Max Beerbohm was sending up in the celebrated stage direction to his Renaissance playlet Savonarola Brown: "Enter Boccaccio, Benvenuto Cellini and many others making remarks highly characteristic of themselves".
