A report by the National Audit Office found that recent changes to civil service recruitment mean that mandarins are under increasing pressure to avoid challenges to ministerial plans.
Now, under this ruling, a taxpayer all but can't, and any government can use the tax system to avoid challenges to financing of religion.
Eliminating less demanding courses was expected to remove an excuse that schools might use to avoid challenging disadvantaged students to strive for college eligibility.
To avoid challenges to his power, he turned the country into what Asian neighbors call the "Shellfare state," because Shell Oil is one of the many oil companies whose operations here pay for the country's universal health care system.
"Although polite culture put women on a pedestal to avoid challenging the prerogatives of men," Howe writes, "it represented in important respects an advance over the subjugation of women common in premodern society".
According to a message posted on the official Twitter feed of the Canadian boat, the ships "slowed down a bit" on Thursday night to avoid challenging the Israeli Navy in the dark.
Note the implication: The way it could have been avoided was for Congress to avoid challenging her.
The simplest way to avoid failing in the future is to avoid challenges altogether.
I should like Peggy, but she sacrifices her identity as a feminist to avoid challenging the male dominated power structure.
After Capablanca's death in 1942, Alekhine wrote that Capablanca's demand for a $10,000 stake had been an attempt to avoid challenges.
