Sentence examples for seemed designed to avoid from inspiring English sources

If Republicans win a majority in the November elections, they could well move to abolish the office, and Mr. Wise's resignation seemed designed to avoid being ensnared in such a development.

More broadly, how would the GOP know if Trump conspired with the Russians if so much of the House investigation seemed designed to avoid asking that question?

Indeed, China's legal system almost seems designed to avoid such judgments.

Questions asked of parents by the Harris academies chain in its consultation for a new free school in East Dulwich, south London, seem designed to avoid negative responses.

This extra oversight requirement is a recognition of the risks of surveilling political activity, and the recording restriction seems designed to avoid those risks. .

The BHR framework seems designed to avoid the latter: companies instead conference with governments (and, de facto, elite NGOs) to decide what rights mean and what remedy structures should look like, and then engage communities (often through consultants) to realize the substance of those decisions in specific situations.

They seemed designed to repel hugs.

If Iran actually lays on the table a proposal that seems genuinely designed to avoid war, while preserving legitimate Iranian interests, not even the lobby can prevent the president from taking it very seriously.

Requirements, which may seem nitpicky, are designed to avoid foul play and vary from state to state.

Milton Keynes seems to be a town designed to avoid conflict.

On reconsideration, it seems more purposeful, as if specifically designed to avoid any controversy that might distract from the major point it was trying to make: namely, that work of gay artists was fundamental to the invention of American modernism.