We identified four components of women's rape avoidance behaviors as assessed by the RAI: avoid strange men, avoid appearing sexually receptive, avoid being alone, and awareness of surroundings/defensive preparedness.
When using his PC, he said, he reminds himself of the need to avoid opening strange attachments which may contain deadly viruses or spying software.
Another man, Boris Kaminyar, who lived directly behind him, said he took care to avoid his strange neighbor four years ago, when Mr. Alalouf threw old shoes and feces into his back yard.
Yet the powerful introduction to the exhibition reveals why it is so hard to avoid thinking of these strange times of ours in terms of terrorism.
Whether it's on the street or right in a doctor's office, I've spent the past decade or so trying to avoid the glances of strange men with the hope that maybe, just maybe, they'll take the hint and leave me alone.
On it contestants perform a human version of the classic Nintendo video game of Tetris, contorting their bodies into strange shapes to avoid falling into a yellow pool of water.
Although I do my best to keep my phone use to a minimum when I'm having a face-to-face conversation (people still do that?), I utilize this distraction when I want to avoid making eye contact with strange men on the subway or reduce the awkwardness of standing in a confined shaft with strangers while riding up 25 flights.
Ever since leaving the shoe warehouse I'd been escaping, and it seemed strange that, trying to avoid trouble, I'd found myself here.
Mr. Cobb said the Wal-Mart rule that generally prohibits employees from working more than 40 hours a week to avoid paying overtime played out in strange ways for night-shift employees.
McAfee's expulsion from Guatemala marked the last chapter in a strange, monthlong odyssey to avoid police questioning about the November killing of American expatriate Gregory Viant Faull, who lived a couple of houses down from McAfee's compound on Ambergris Caye, off Belize's Caribbean coast.
