Sentence examples for story to avoid from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kwan defends the pacing as a means of paring down the story to avoid "a soap-opera style this material didn't deserve".

Several higher-ranking officers who were not personally implicated in the incident testified that Farouq's version of events was "not logical," and speculated that he and the other officers had come up with the story to avoid blame.

The assistant wrestling coach, McCoy, allegedly suggested to Parker that the accuser could have made up a story to avoid her parents' anger that she was pregnant with a black man's child.

Every single time I do any Somali-related story, to avoid problems with the family and immediate relations I choose never to disclose where I will be going and who I'm travelling with.

But at the scene yesterday, about a block from Mr. Pomar's home, dozens of his friends bitterly disputed that account, and accused the police of causing his death by accidentally striking him with their patrol car and then fabricating a story to avoid blame.

Antonio Blanco, who also worked on this adaptation, said that: "We plan to market the film as a Guatemalan story to avoid any problems with authorities".

Embarrassed, we tell ourselves stories to avoid recognizing that we're in trouble.

The Sabhnanis say their accusers have concocted elaborate stories to avoid being sent home.

He feels he has a "responsibility to their stories", to avoid the "danger of being irresponsible, of being sensationalist".

But author Sophie Hannah has told Dubai's literature festival that she uses an invented county (Culver Valley) for her stories to avoid just such over-familiarity.

While the major building boom in prefab residential construction began in the nineteen-fifties, much of the housing stock was limited to five-stories to avoid the need for elevators, according to Richard Anderson of Columbia University.