Sentence examples for than avoided from inspiring English sources

This industry offers signposts on the road to prosperity – although now ones to be followed rather than avoided.

Today, many advertising agencies promote advertainment, commercials that are entertaining in their own right and are sought out by consumers rather than avoided.

Carbon offset projects can also create leakage, where a project causes impacts that unintentionally increase emissions elsewhere, such as when deforestation is simply relocated rather than avoided.

In a memorandum filed in the Seattle case, tax inspectors claim that when Amazon weighed up the costs and benefits of implementing the scheme, its finance staff "did not quantify any benefits other than avoided US corporate income taxes".

In a dissenting opinion today, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said the court should have confronted, rather than avoided, the question of whether a law providing for visiting rights in the best interests of the child could ever be constitutional.

The latest air strikes do nothing to change the battlefield dynamics in Syria or the course of the war — which is to say, a U.S.-Russian showdown over Syria has most likely been delayed rather than avoided entirely.

And nothing is more practical than avoiding avalanches.

Rather than avoiding this grim reality, Mr. Fox embraced it.

He plays to win rather than avoid defeat.

"Easier than avoiding important blood vessels," he said.

Rather than avoiding or denying suffering, Kierkegaard was unusually willing to confront it and investigate it.