Sentence examples for to avoid shut from inspiring English sources

To avoid, shut down or hibernate your computer every night (to allow a cool-down period) and play only after such a period.

The city is installing a new water main and, given the avenue's importance to drivers, pedestrians and businesses, it wants to avoid shutting down entire blocks.

Mr. Cuomo, who is the governor-elect, has sought to avoid shutting down Soundview so as not to interrupt medical care for the clinics' thousands of patients.

New York's last Catholic hospital, St. Vincent's in Manhattan, is now near bankruptcy and struggling to avoid shutting down.

Mr. Burke said that to avoid shutting rural post offices, the Postal Service should first pare the number and salaries of upper managers and close more urban post offices.

The Senate voted 72 to 28 to approve a stopgap spending measure to avoid shutting down most federal agencies at midnight Saturday.

His predecessor in New York, Cardinal John J. O'Connor, struggled to avoid shutting schools, but many church watchers predicted his successor would be forced to take that action.

Although Cardinal O'Connor struggled to avoid shutting Catholic schools despite dwindling enrollments, his successor may have no choice but to consolidate some schools and parishes and close others.

Both Republicans and Democrats said that they were eager to avoid shutting down the government but that the tightening time-frame increased the odds that government agencies could be closed for lack of financing.

Mr. Cruz has been an outspoken opponent of President Obama's health care law, railing against it for more than 21 hours on the Senate floor last month as the chamber considered a budget proposal to avoid shutting down the government.

The new rules instruct the Justice Department to look for ways to avoid shutting down an entire lawsuit and to reject privilege requests motivated by a desire to "conceal violations of the law, inefficiency or administrative error" or to "prevent embarrassment".