Sentence examples for strived to avoid from inspiring English sources

Barely a year after the Russian leader compared the Bush administration's foreign policy to that of the Third Reich, the two leaders clearly strived to avoid any unpleasant public rifts in this meeting, and largely succeeded.

Michael and Matthew have strived to avoid taking nepotistic advantage of their relation to Olds, and have preferred to conceal it — Michael told a professor at college of the connection only after his class was assigned a weeklong study of an Olds poem and he had to excuse himself, on the ground that it was about his grandfather.

Mr. McElroy said Judge Burns had "clearly got it wrong" and had strived to avoid what Mr. McElroy saw as the central point: that a pre-eminent religious symbol, which he argued was placed with religious intent, should not be permitted to stand on federal property.

Not only has that situation been endorsed by Cas admitting they had to agree to sell Daryl Clark to Warrington a year ago to avoid a fiscal calamity, in an interesting Q&A in League Weekly last week CEO Steve Gill admitted "we haven't had to ask [chairman] Jack Fulton for any money since July 2013" as they strived to avoid "the embarrassment of early 2013 again".

He thus strived to avoid the Scylla of platonism (with its epistemological problems) and the Charybdis of formalism (with its poverty of content).

Their aversion to clothing that appears to belong to alternative, gangster, or gay styles suggests that these men strived to avoid clothing that implied identities viewed as non-conformist, non-professional, and unusual.

This is something JR strives to avoid.

Eisenhower strove to avoid war at any cost.

But both sides also strive to avoid confrontation.

It was sideways hugs that strove to avoid breast contact.

Mr Darling may still be striving to avoid nationalisation, but his quest looks ever more forlorn.