According to Jonathan Anderson, who is a plaintiff in the suit along with his seventh-grade son, the boy was told that to avoid the assembly he had to report to the suspension room, which the boy interpreted as a punishment.
Ill and emaciated, former governor Reyes was quietly freed from more than a year in conditions that approached solitary confinement, but told that to avoid trouble it would be best if he never showed himself in the province again.
An Indian man told me that to avoid extortion and bribe-seeking police officers, I should never stop for anyone in uniform or anyone apparently in distress.
In 1998, linebacker Andy Katzenmoyer told Sports Illustrated that to avoid academic ineligibility he had taken summer classes in golf, music and AIDS awareness.
The president of the Levenger catalogue, a high-end reading and writing instrument retailer, once told Fadiman that to avoid the temptation to scrawl when reading nice books, he held a chopstick in his free hand instead of a pen.
Some Zimbabweans told me that to avoid being targeted by Mugabe's thugs and henchmen, as in 2008, they falsely professed allegiance to Zanu-PF by attending rallies and party activities and making donations to the party.
On the flight I met a young man returning from studying abroad, who told me that to avoid being drafted after he finishes his degree he would have to pay a bribe of around $50,000, while for those who do get drafted, the bribe to avoid being sent to the front line of Azerbaijan's long-running conflict with Armenia is a mere $5,000.
Their adolescent son became very sick from hookworm and the doctor told them that to avoid hookworm they needed to stop OD and build and use a latrine.
He will tell them that to avoid suspicion he can only deliver five or six cases at a time, and they will agree.
Dzung tells us that to avoid overstressing the delicate ecology of the Abandoned Valley, he is devising an alternative adventure day to a cave called Tra Ang, in a different valley.
The science of climate change tells us that, to avoid catastrophic levels of warming – and the droughts and floods that would inevitably follow – global emissions, which are rising at record speed, must peak within the next five years.
