Sentence examples for thereby to avoid from inspiring English sources

The book relates stories about the scores of princes whose brothers ordered them strangled as soon as they took power, hoping thereby to avoid dynastic challenges.

The disputes with Beijing stemmed from a Chinese effort to subvert the clear meaning of agreements they had signed and thereby to avoid being confronted by too many awkward democratic institutions when Hong Kong came under Chinese rule.

It is clear, however, that a statute providing for the lapse, escheat, or abandonment of private property cannot impose conditions on continued ownership that are unreasonable, either because they cost too much or because the statute does not allow property owners a reasonable opportunity to perform them and thereby to avoid the loss of their property.

The 550 Japanese troops in Samawah will call themselves part of the multinational force, but carry on as before operating in "non-combat" zones and will take orders from nobody.When its troops started venturing overseas more than a decade ago, Japan's goal was to look more like all of the other countries that provide peacekeepers, and thereby to avoid criticism.

Burritt, in the early editions of his book, arbitrarily changed the name to Praxiteles, perhaps thinking thereby to avoid possible confusion with the constellation Sculptor.

Lacan hoped thereby to avoid being misinterpreted in the ways that Freud's deceptively accessible employments of natural language allegedly allowed most non-Lacanian post-Freudians to perpetrate.

Adhesive bonding offers the advantage of load spreading, thereby tending to avoid cold flow.

The questions refer to every type of incident, thereby attempting to avoid recall problems and interpretation problems.

For example, the widely employed FSA protocol [3] schedules the activated tags to respond during time slots in a frame, thereby trying to avoid collisions in the acquisition phase.

The Senate thereby attempted to avoid a constitutional crisis.

In this correspondence, Gerard complained that some of the York canons refused to be ordained as priests, thereby hoping to avoid taking the vow of celibacy.