Sentence examples for to avoid the misery of from inspiring English sources

And mothers like Tabitha have been queuing up to vaccinate their children, to avoid the misery of seeing a child die from a disease which is entirely preventable.

He's such a pitcher of fits, tormentor of editors, haranguer on Twitter and overall basket case that he also declares about his third wife: "Lisa has told me several times that she is determined to die first to avoid the misery of taking care of me".

Patients we admitted without question ten years ago are now sent home and told to 'come back if you get worse.' In fact, it's so hard to admit people that I now send home patients I would never have discharged, simply to avoid the misery of explaining the problem to already over-taxed hospitalists who are themselves constrained hand and foot by impossible rules.

Aren't you trying to avoid the misery?

If you could press a magic button, keep your kids, acquire all of life's wisdom, and avoid the misery of a divorce, would you hit that button?

The drinking of bhang is believed to cleanse sins, unite you with Shiva, and avoid the miseries of hell in the future life.

It seems that as long as you can afford to avoid the basic miseries of life, having loads of spare cash doesn't make you very much happier than having very little.

The trick is to avoid the perilous cycle of over-commitment, misery, overwhelm and defeat.

Through the execution or overthrow of undesirable foreign leaders, the thinking went, it might be possible to orchestrate the global struggle against Communism from a distance, and avoid the misery — and the risks of nuclear war — that out-and-out combat would bring.

But, for that reason, it was better for me not to try to avoid the comparison, because I was able to benefit from the expectations that readers of "Misery" would bring to my book.

AFTER Hurricane Katrina, Europeans rushed to congratulate themselves on avoiding the misery they saw on the faces of survivors.