Sentence examples for to avoid in favour of from inspiring English sources

They have not been helped by Mr Berlusconi's incumbency in the Palazzo Chigi, the prime minister's official residence (which, in a characteristic confusion of public duty and private pleasure, he tends to avoid in favour of his own residence nearby, one of many).

Despite this, a single commit requires several rounds of gossip to complete and as such is avoided in favour of plain gossip wherever possible.

As Derek Holton points out, "if mathematics is seen as a major that is harder to complete it may also be avoided in favour of easier subjects that have similar financial rewards" ([16], pp. 9).

But it's important to gauge his careful distance from the tradition of photomontage – a term he avoids, in favour of "collage".

Hydrodynamic characterisation software is avoided in favour of a simpler and more versatile design tool destined to a wider range of users.

Some hope that party politics can be avoided in favour of civilised debate and continued consensus.

Playing Along's references to enjoying a new peaceful life in the country aside, the lyrics steer well clear of Keane's personal upheavals: the topic of charlie and Chaplin is discreetly avoided in favour of big, sweeping statements about current events.

Roads with heavy traffic must be avoided, in favour of side roads, but these side roads must be neither potholed nor covered in deep mud.

Traditional statistical tests of hypothesis such as the parametric Student's t-test, were avoided in favour of the non-parametric Mann–Whitney U test in Wessa.net at the section from Statistics Education at Aston University (http://www.wessa.net/aston_university.wasp).wasp

Cul-de-sacs were avoided in favour of better linkages and pedestrian access.

By developing non-absorbable, braided polyethylene sutures, this can be avoided in favour of higher peak tensile strengths [ 7, 29].