Sentence examples for to avoid mayhem from inspiring English sources

Mr. Putin described Russia's policy, which has put it at odds with Washington and also Arab countries that support Mr. Assad's opponents, as intended to avoid mayhem.

With two individuals required to coexist in enclosed spaces for extended periods of time, domesticity requires substantial quantities of compromise and adaptation simply to avoid mayhem.

Those wishing to avoid the mayhem of Black Friday can still make the most of those amazing deals from the comfort of your own home.

Kenya's most powerful politicians have been urging voters to be peaceful and to avoid the mayhem that erupted at the end of 2007 and in early 2008.

AUSTIN Full Throttle Many local residents chose to avoid the mayhem of the inaugural Formula One Grand Prix race at the Circuit of the Americas track, 30 minutes south of Austin.

A music teacher, Reggie Smith, told The Los Angeles Times that it was a chaotic scene and difficult to distinguish between those fighting and those trying to avoid the mayhem.

"A big gap is that the too-big-to-fail problem has not yet been solved," Lagarde said, referring to the belief in markets that governments will still step in to rescue the biggest banks to avoid the mayhem seen when Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008.

In less serene regions, the scarcity of Coca-Cola was sometimes so acute that upon receiving a trickling shipment a military unit would have the chaplain dole it out, in the hope of avoiding mayhem.

The executives at the company expect to be able to avoid the general mayhem in music created by downloading because their customers are older -- the average age is 45 -- and much less prone to downloading.

Ideally, you want to pick up gear and tickets the night before to avoid the morning mayhem.

Hundreds of police officers from all over the state were keeping fans in line, usingwhat appeared to be pepper spray and making arrests to try to avoid the kind of mayhem that broke out after the team's victory in the league championship series last week, when police, trying to subdue rowdy fans, fired a pepper-spray pellet that struck and killed a college student.