Sentence examples for sought to avoid any from inspiring English sources

Mr. Fourtou, in the conference call, defended his asset-disposal strategy, emphasizing that he sought "to avoid any fire sale".

"For 37 years," he wrote, Hoover had "sought to avoid any assignment that would involve the F.B.I. directly" with fighting organized crime.

The BBC has studiously sought to avoid any controversy around its coverage, although that has not stopped protests about its alleged bias, and complaints that it was not devoting enough airtime to the issue.

For now, the Vatican is not shedding any light on why the pope would have met Davis and why it would have chosen to keep the meeting secret, but Francis sought to avoid any meetings that could be interpreted as controversial during his trip to Cuba and the US.

The grey area had kept tipping out of some popular apps who sought to avoid any tension with Apple.

We will suggest, on the contrary, that while there are many good reasons for epistemological idealism, indeed, that—suitably broadly understood it has in fact become the default epistemology of modern philosophy, many of the most important of modern idealists have sought to avoid any inference from epistemological to ontological idealism.

The Allied Chiefs of Staff had sought to avoid an encounter mobile battle without any strong fixed defences to fall back on and hoped Belgian resistance would last long enough for a defensive line to be established.

Michigan sought to avoid an upset similar to the 2007 team, which lost to Appalachian State.

Seeking to avoid any further damage, Umenyiora dabbled with a soccer-style cup.

At the same time, it is seeking to avoid any appearance of a fire sale.

In seeking to avoid any appearance of impropriety, the trust sets parameters for the defense fund.