More important, they'd developed strategies to avoid confusing the guest of honor.
So far, operators have kept quiet about their 4G plans, to avoid confusing the marketplace.
In the kitchen, technologies were being piggybacked, if expensively, to avoid confusing choices for consumers.
The trick in all this is to use a hyphen to avoid confusing the reader's eye.
Another reason behind title change is to avoid confusing international audiences such as The Avengers becoming The Avengers Assemble in the UK or Neighbors turning into Bad Neighbours, both to avoid anyone thinking that either TV show was being adapted.
The breeder had named the dog Major, and the family that adopted him — our next-door neighbors, the Leavells — tried to call him something similar in order to avoid confusing him.
In the letter to Mr. Lew, the senators say that to avoid confusing the banks, the C.F.T.C. cross-border guidelines should not take effect until the Securities and Exchange Commission completes a separate set of derivatives rules.
During a planning workshop it became clear there was a risk of subtle conflicts in priorities and initiatives already underway needed to be reconsidered, to avoid confusing other stakeholders or diluting resources further.
(In the Encyclopædia Britannica, however, the definite article is written al- in transliteration, even when the l is assimilated in pronunciation [i.e., is not pronounced].) Care must be taken to avoid confusing the definite article al- meaning "the" with the form Āl, a different Arabic construction that is used to designate a family or tribal name.
We may need a quick rethink to avoid confusing "a glow" with "aglow" – which would certainly be dated and sentimental – but, when we read the line properly, the indefinite article works fine, and seems more appropriate to the evanescent mystery of it all than the emphatic "one".
