Sentence examples for scramble to avoid from inspiring English sources

There's also a scramble to avoid a government shutdown at October 1, unless Congress comes up with emergency funds.

I nearly got sucked over backward by a vicious, ledging wave, then had to scramble to avoid a monstrous set.

That planned cut, scheduled to start Jan . 1 involves an annual budgetary rite in which lawmakers scramble to avoid scaling back the doctors' fees.

Harlequins remain involved in the scramble to avoid relegation after allowing a 12-0 advantoge to slip in Perpignan against Catalans Dragons, who won 38-18.

Many Senate Democrats — and some Republicans — have said they intend to oppose a short-term funding bill proposed by Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and majority leader, setting the stage for a legislative scramble to avoid a government shutdown.

Jeffrey K. Skilling, Enron's president and chief executive during the March 2001 scramble to avoid having to report a half-billion dollars in losses, told the committee that he had known little of what happened.

So it may seem odd that America's politicians are now scrambling to avoid those reductions.

Mr. Burns, the incumbent, got a slow start, and is now scrambling to avoid an upset.

Yet the article sent White House aides and other Democrats scrambling to avoid the appearance of special treatment.

Neighboring countries have been hit hard, too, as foreign investors and tourists have scrambled to avoid the region.

The experience of the poor, and especially poor people of color, comes to resemble that of a rat in a cage scrambling to avoid erratically administered electric shocks.