Camden Town painters, especially Walter Sickert, he could scarcely avoid.
A gridlocked Congress has struggled to move any legislation, scarcely avoiding a shutdown of federally funded highway projects earlier this year.
Though she could not get a credit card in Saudi Arabia, in the Emirates she could scarcely avoid one.
Plovdiv's residents are proud of their history, which is good: they could scarcely avoid it if they tried.
Readers, by the last page, can scarcely avoid that question, or the larger algorithm that Shipler offers: "To appraise a society, examine its ability to be self-correcting.
Maxwell concluded that he could "scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena".
She can scarcely avoid being bitter against boxing now and many who have not suffered such personal agony because of the hardest of sports will be asking once again if the game is worth the candle.
Rather than abandoning ethnography, West draws inspiration from this connection, arguing that anthropologists, along with the people they study, can scarcely avoid interpreting the world they inhabit, and that we are all, inescapably, ethnographic sorcerers.
Biologists have made many assumptions about the effects of fragmentation without looking closely at animals' behavior, says behavioral ecologist Steven Lima of Indiana State University in Terre Haute, "so we can scarcely avoid being surprised when we start following animals around to see where they're going and what they're doing".
Thus, each day before venturing forth from La Gaffe, a guest like me could sample--in fact, could scarcely avoid--hotelier Bernardo Stella's rhyming observations on rain, birds, forbidden love, the Queen's Silver Jubilee and so on.
He considered this to be more than just a coincidence, commenting, "We can scarcely avoid the conclusion that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena".
