Sentence examples for to avoid the violent from inspiring English sources

Officials canceled the meeting last week to avoid the violent protests that have marred similar meetings during the last two years.

His greatest achievement was to avoid the violent "Yugoslav scenario" and allow the Soviet Union's 15 republics to go their separate ways peacefully in 1991-92 without civil war.

Cartman spends this episode trying to figure out how to keep Heidi from discovering mean things he's said about women on the internet, and eventually alights on a plan: they're going to Mars to avoid the violent fallout when Troll Trace goes global.

The group was in no hurry to develop the site, so to avoid the violent clashes between squatters and police, which have become almost routine during Berlin evictions, Fundus negotiated a 10-year lease with the artists in 1998.

The area's lush terrain and ideal climate has made it the perfect place to produce marijuana and opium poppy; it's where the Sinaloa cartel emerged decades ago and where a manhunt for cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman led to a mass exodus of people attempting to avoid the violent tactics of government forces.

Israel's intelligence failed to fully appreciate who was on board, and Israel's leaders certainly failed to think more creatively about how to avoid the very violent confrontation that the blockade-busters wanted.

Although California Sen. Leland Yee issued a statement prior to the game's release urging parents to avoid the latest "ultra-violent videogame," his press representative Adam Keigwin says Yee won't denounce the title unless there's another Hot Coffee incident referring to code buried within "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" that, if unlocked via patch or hacking, revealed an explicit mini-game.

In others, it sends "Amber alert" notifications to aid the location of a crime victim, often a kidnapped child, or to tell recipients to avoid the area where a violent crime is being committed or from which a suspect is fleeing.

Emperor Diocletian had it constructed around the turn of the fourth century, then retired to it in 305 AD, thus avoiding the violent fate of many other Roman rulers.

It had not been colonized by Europeans, and thus avoided the violent independence struggles that began to disrupt the continent in the nineteen-fifties.

Despite sporadic protests and strikes by health workers, Sierra Leoneans largely avoided the violent demonstrations that occurred in Liberia and Guinea.