Often, the creator of a trust outlines his or her philosophy in a separate document, to avoid having it construed as legally binding.
"Sorry, women," Glen says, at one point, abstractly addressing all of them at once, the better to avoid something that could be construed as a real apology.
(Here I should say, mindful of the warning issued to me by NYPD, which arrested me, to avoid saying anything that could be construed as "incitement to riot" and that I believe in nonviolent resistance).
A3 New Tactics in Barrier Dispute Israeli soldiers guarding the Israeli separation barrier with the West Bank have developed new tactics to protect the barrier from protesters in an attempt to avoid any scenes that could be construed as brutal behavior.
Alterations shown in the AN group in response to the sad film clip, such as looking away, could be construed as an attempt to avoid any negative feelings the stimulus was evoking (see Davies et al., 2011 for further discussion on this).
Settling the case, United States v. Spirit Lake Tribe, filed in Federal District Court in Fargo, Mr. McKay said, was "a prudent business decision" to avoid legal costs and "should not be construed as an admission of wrongdoing".
I am somewhat deferential in the company of women, and I had made a conscientious effort to avoid any touch, any word that might be construed as improper.
So construed, the obvious way to try to avoid the frame problem is by appealing to the notion of relevance.
The seemingly innocuous phrase "critically analyze" is used by promoters of Intelligent Design (ID) to avoid making any anti-evolution references that could be construed as religious.
With increasing evidence of the benefits of mindfulness, more and more leaders have shed their skepticism and become evangelists for the cause -- even in politics, where image-sensitive officials might be expected to avoid attaching themselves to any idea that might be construed as soft.
