Society is full of whispered scenarios in which spouses live apart, in different homes or in the same mega-apartment in order to silence gossip, avoid ugly divorce battles and maintain the status quo, however uneasy.
Milonov said he is going to get prosecutors involved to try to avoid such "ugly insults to millions of Russian families in the future".
Have landed an early punch by being the only team to avoid the ugly step nose, with an elegant, featherweight car.
At the same time they will probably try to avoid an ugly public squabble that could damage the value of the Jackson brand.
Representative Charles B. Rangel and the House ethics committee have been exploring a settlement to the numerous accusations against him, which would allow the 20-term congressman to avoid an ugly public trial and could prevent further political damage to Democrats nationally.
The I.O.C. hopes to avoid the ugly scenes that erupted in San Francisco, Paris and London last year when anti-China protesters attempted to douse the Olympic flame, forcing the relay to be stopped and sometimes rerouted as the enterprise descended into chaos.
But the meetings came just a month before Taiwan's presidential elections, and seemed in part an effort to avoid the ugly confrontations that preceded the last Taiwan presidential election, in 1996.
When Luther walks away from an easy catch and throws the game to avoid an ugly showdown, he creates the highly charged atmosphere in which "The Given Day" will unfold.
Indeed, a sluggish and unreformed France might even find itself at the centre of the next euro crisis.It is not unusual for politicians to avoid some ugly truths during elections; but it is unusual, in recent times in Europe, to ignore them as completely as French politicians are doing.
