Sentence examples for their efforts to avoid from inspiring English sources

Despite their efforts to avoid detection, deaths were commonplace.

The result may be that the tax pushes investors into more risky securities in their efforts to avoid it.

The first scoffs at people's attempts to cope with trauma once they've already been traumatised; the second undermines their efforts to avoid being traumatised in the first place.

A masterstroke: one of them could not see at all and the others were jumping here and there in their efforts to avoid him.

In fact, the lead bipartisan sponsors of both bills had closely coordinated their efforts to avoid the battle that will take place this month.

For example, Stanford has voted for proxy resolutions asking companies to report on their efforts to avoid using minerals whose sale finances human rights abuses in Africa.

The Mets could be headed toward a 29th losing season this year — many fans and pundits seem to think so — and their effort to avoid one will be helped greatly if they can capitalize on their early schedule, which offers some unimposing opponents.

Carver, a Geordie, had promised no lack of effort and enthusiasm from his side in their effort to avoid a winless run in the fixture now extending back seven matches to August 2011.

That had an interesting offshoot as monarchical feudalism lost sway: loyal subjects who were torn by the venality of sitting sovereigns found it necessary as part of their effort to avoid charges of treason to distinguish their ongoing loyalty to the institution of kingship from their loyalty to a particular king.

For abnormal babies, women provided similar attractiveness ratings to men, but their effort to avoid viewing the images exceeded that of men (Figure 1).

Mr. Kendall said sonar produces noise as loud as 2,000 jet engines and that some whales die or become stranded in their frantic efforts to avoid it.