But members of the Iraqi Governing Council also said they wanted to avoid full-scale confrontation on an issue the Americans feel strongly about and would win anyway.
Further, the rebels have often fought rationally and with caution, trying to avoid full-scale or foolish assaults and settling in for the tactics of the siege.
After working closely with Democrats in his first two years, Mr. Clinton redoubled his efforts thereafter to avoid full-scale defections as he governed from the center.
In Philadelphia two weeks ago, with the city intent on maintaining an upbeat appearance for the Republican National Convention, large contingents of police clearly worked to avoid full-scale clashes with street demonstrators.
To avoid full-scale computation from genome-wide databases, four cytokinesis-related gene cases were selected for NCA by running computational analysis over the transcription factor database to confirm the approach being scale-free.
Using the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model system, we aim to deduce regulatory actions of cytokinesis-related genes, using precise spatial proximity (midbody) and/or temporal synchronicity (cytokinesis) to avoid full-scale computation from genome-wide databases.
RBS may also only open branches on certain days of the week, or open later or close earlier – moves that would avoid full-scale closures.
For now, however, the country appears to have avoided full-scale civil war.
Mr. Obama has almost never talked about that side of the campaign, the short-of-war coercion that was part of what his aides once called the "light footprint strategy" of avoiding full-scale military action.
True, Japan has avoided full-scale depression.
Despite talk of currency wars, Asian countries have so far avoided full-scale hostilities over their exchange rates.
