Bartman rebuffed the overtures, Murtha said, to avoid the notoriety and the inevitable uproar afterward.
Still, Jock, a prep basketball player who managed to avoid overtures from the track coach until he was a sophomore — "I hate running, I told him," Jock said.
Those familiar with the mayor's overtures to the publishers said he wished to avoid the kind of bruising confrontation with editorial boards that characterized his last push to revise the city's election rules.
Hendrik Hering, the state's economy minister, argued that Fiat's proposal was "all about size" and pointed to the failure of the Daimler-Chrysler merger as a reason to avoid the Italian company's overture.
But as Dr Perelman resists the insistent overtures of the outside world, he may reflect that if he had hoped to avoid the public eye, he might have been better off taking the money.
Where, in fact, it's helpful feedback if your cloying online overtures are met with a barrage of ROFLs and LMAOs because you'll know to avoid trying that particular line IRL.
He said Vietnam had been slow to accept American overtures for closer military ties, hoping to balance Chinese influence in the region with an American presence, but stepping carefully to avoid offending Beijing.
Simona Bitmate's pained, sullenly defiant niece tries to avoid eye-contact with him as she sits implacably sewing and on one occasion, after he has made shy overtures by showing her a conjuring trick, she has to race outside in the rain to retch (presumably from emotions more mixed than mere disgust).
Brooker (2007), however, argues that the person's dependency on the caregiver's overtures, help and support requires constant self-examination by the caregiver: the caregiver must examine and manage the imbalance of power in order to avoid infantilizing the person.
