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

The board's provisions mandating debates between the candidates it finances were devised to avoid the sorts of messy debates over debates that crop up so persistently during elections.

One is to turn the 2002 declaration into a binding code of conduct, in which the countries with overlapping claims (the others are Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan) agree to avoid the sorts of provocations seen this month.

Gordon D. Johndroe, the National Security Council spokesman, told reporters aboard Air Force One that they would discuss new rules to expedite border crossings after natural disasters, terrorist strikes or epidemics, to try to avoid the sorts of tie-ups that slowed border crossings and stalled commerce after the Sept. 11 attacks.

To avoid the sorts of awkward incidents I went through, I told her that Santa is a story people like to repeat, like Little Red Riding Hood or Cinderella, and that just like other stories, sometimes people like to play pretend that they're real.

He strives to avoid the sort of "group-think" that led to Vietnam.

That would allow Spain to avoid the sort of bailouts that banks in Greece, Portugal and Ireland received.

Mr Obama has managed to avoid the sort of humiliating defeat in Congress that David Cameron suffered in Britain's Parliament.

The cellphone companies wanted to avoid the sort of price wars that occurred a decade earlier in the long-distance market.

But mostly, remarkably, Mr. Brown managed to avoid the sort of career-ending crises that undid venturesome directors elsewhere.

While some called it the end of the seven-year war, Mr. Obama sought to avoid the sort of "mission accomplished" moment that haunted his predecessor.

The Reds boss has stressed he is keen to get his business done as early as possible to avoid the sort of problems which arose last summer.