Sentence examples for to avoid sequestration from inspiring English sources

In other cases, juries reach a verdict too soon so as to avoid sequestration.

Not surprisingly the so-called Super Committee, assembled to avoid sequestration, could not reach a deal because of continued GOP intransigence on taxes.

"The only way to avoid sequestration is to work with us on a balanced and fair approach that protects middle-class families," said Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington.

Whether politics — and the desire to avoid sequestration — will allow the Pentagon to avoid any additional budget cuts remains an unknown, but one that has planners across the military deeply worried.

By Mr. Panetta's calculations, the new cuts would reduce the 2013 budget by 23 percent — the reason Pentagon officials said they would push Congress to work out a way to avoid "sequestration," the automatic cuts set in motion by the committee's failure.

As before, it also allows Congress to avoid sequestration entirely if it can find another way to shrink spending by that amount.

As recent compromises over the fiscal cliff and other issues have shown, there is still, I believe, a critical mass of members in Congress on both sides of the aisle who are willing to roll up their sleeves and avoid sequestration.

Congress can avoid sequestration's meat-cleaver approach, and instead use a scalpel to make strategic cuts.

Yesterday the State Legislature finally responded with a sensible reform that will save money, spare jurors needless inconvenience, broaden the pool of jurors able to serve, and improve the quality of justice by preventing juries from rushing to a verdict simply to avoid automatic sequestration.

And there were questions about the president (and Congress too) taking time off as negotiations stalled to avoid a sequestration that threatens major defense cuts and shutdown of major government programs that is due to take place on March 1st.

We may take a turn for the worse if next week's 5percentt across-the-board cuts to public health and other nondefense discretionary programs go through (that is, of course, unless Congress is pressured before March 1 to avoid these "sequestration" cuts.