Sentence examples for to avoid sanctions from inspiring English sources

The Hungarian government desperately wants to avoid sanctions from Europe.

Microsoft agreed to the balloting to avoid sanctions in an antitrust case.

It has done so to avoid sanctions, deflect criticism and smooth the way for state visits.

But some experts say states are quietly doing their best to avoid sanctions.

"My statement that Standard Chartered had no willful act to avoid sanctions was wrong," Mr. Peace said.

From a rational choice institutional perspective, people follow norms because they want to avoid sanctions and maximize rewards.

The polls (and the media climate in which they are held) must be fair enough to avoid sanction.

"Anything we say, we ASA-proof it now, absolutely," says Browning, referring to the need to avoid sanction by the Advertising Standards Authority.

That has potentially opened the door for some of the more than 170 athletes who have tested positive for the drug to avoid sanction.

Coll is terrific inside the Washington beltway: on the zeal of the CIA's Bin Laden unit (they called themselves "the Manson family"), set up after the east African bombings of 1998, and its conflicts with Clinton White House lawyers desperate to avoid sanctioning assassinations.

In some respects, this question has greater significance than the question concerning private individuals because many acknowledge that the motivation of private individuals to obey the law is usually prudential, the desire to avoid sanction.