Sentence examples for they avoided making from inspiring English sources

In keeping with their month-long agreement, officials on both sides declined to offer details on the substance of their discussion, and they avoided making any predictions about whether a deal was possible this weekend.

Most, steeled by vast experience against the importunings of panhandlers and evangelists for all causes, from sample sales to political candidates, did the New York thing: they avoided making eye contact.

They got into the elevator together, and he pressed the button for their friends' floor, and she said, "That's me, too, thanks," and after that the doors closed and they avoided making eye contact, but on the way up they slipped and saw each other in the same instant, and, in the shock of meeting her eyes, he exclaimed, in a whisper, "You're so tall!" and she blushed, and his face got red, too.

But in my heart I knew it would be unfair to deny my children the wisdom of my years, if only to ensure they avoided making the sort of politically incorrect mistake that in 1971 led me to dress as Siamese twins, a get-up that required a friend and me to swelter inside one of my grandfather's oversize undershirts until our unused arms went numb.

The creative team behind Frank insist that they avoided making a straight biopic because "the reality of Sievey would undermine the mystery of Sidebottom".

With the latest polls showing a six-point lead for the "leave" campaign Mr Cameron wants to ensure that the vast majority of his cabinet colleagues support his position – while those who oppose him do so in the knowledge that they will only be able to return to government if they avoid making the campaign too divisive.

Because students with fixed mind-sets value looking smart over learning, when work becomes difficult and the risk of mistakes increases they avoid making an effort.

They carefully avoided making offers they could not keep, but often dangled "promises" that were subtly incomplete instead of offering to move a prisoner to a better cell, for instance, a gator might promise to "see the boss" about doing so.

Sometimes they even avoided making appointments because they dreaded having to cancel them.

They said virtually nothing about jobs, education, and health care reform during their campaigns, and they scrupulously avoided making any promises to make big, sweeping changes on them if elected.

Their share price has grown 50percentt, and they have avoided making grandiose predictions that cause Wall Street analysts to set silly targets.