But just by allowing this lawsuit to proceed, the Second Circuit has sent an important message: The government cannot count on simplistic legal arguments to avoid scrutiny of its program to spy on civilians.
It is best to avoid simplistic terms like "food desert" when solving complex social problems.
Representative Sherwood Boehlert, the New York Republican who is chairman of the science committee, defended Mr. O'Keefe, describing the e-mail messages released on Wednesday as speculation from engineers, and he urged lawmakers "to avoid simplistic comparisons" to efforts by NASA officials to cover up problems in the aftermath of the Challenger shuttle explosion in 1986.
Following the riots in England in August 2011, Miliband called for a public inquiry into the events, and insisted society had "to avoid simplistic answers".
Campbell required his authors to avoid simplistic horror fiction and insisted that the fantasy elements in a story be developed logically: for example, Jack Williamson's "Darker Than You Think" describes a world in which there is a scientific explanation for the existence of werewolves.
It's important to examine this moment with some care and, above all, to avoid drawing simplistic psychological conclusions.
Polls indicating that Republican voters prefer this or that candidate for president are often as simplistic as they are hard to avoid.
Responsible neuroscientists have taken pains to avoid the simplistic localization that characterized phrenology; as we observed, "Brain imaging experts are well versed in the conceptual limits of inferring mental states from biological indicators".
Whereas the authors' 1989 biography of Jackson Pollock, which inexplicably won the Pulitzer Prize, used reductive Freudianism to try to explain his art, this volume does its best to avoid drawing simplistic connections between van Gogh's galvanic work and his emotional difficulties.
The main areas highlighted relevant to the role of a case manager were how to resist giving information as a simplistic solution to problems, how to avoid adding too many elements to the initial needs assessment and how to taper involvement as needs changed.
