But when the bills opponents said supporters defeated the rule to avoid a defeat on the bill, they were plainly spinning; in fact, neither side knew who had the most votes.
In 1999 Gucci, a luxury-goods firm, exploited the Dutch rules to avoid putting a takeover bid from LVMH, a bigger French rival, to its shareholders.
Alternatively, Goitein notes, the Senate could vote not to consider that resolution or change its rules to avoid such a vote.
The NETCOST algorithm (Weintraub and Dreyfus, 1985) and the NETWORK algorithm (Sessions, 1985) are similar to the Prorate Algorithm but each uses a series of rules to avoid stalling in a local minimum.
There are also rules to avoid heading in "a bawdy direction," she adds.
A bachelor follows a set of rules to avoid emotional attachment, until he meets a girl who changes everything.
After all, it's a pretty safe rule to avoid any novel whose jacket highlights a day that will change the characters' lives forever.
Anyone, so long as he or she complies with a few basic rules to avoid interference, could try to build a better Wi-Fi and become a broadband billionaire.
And the performers know that in their offstage lives, they have to abide by many of society's rules to avoid harming others - a message that Trump and other sociopaths never got.
"We made a rule to avoid any similarities, as no one wanted the work to feel iterative," Hicks continues.
