Sentence examples for tried to avoid an from inspiring English sources

They also tried to avoid an oncoming car".

There was a now a serious risk of ending up with what we had always tried to avoid, an Ireland under hostile and sinister influence".

He tried to avoid an increase in the monarchy's Slavic population, but, to prevent Russia from profiting alone from the Balkan crisis beginning in 1875, he agreed at the Congress of Berlin (1878) to Austria's occupation of Bosnia and Hercegovina.

He couldn't do so, not least because Hamas has as much support as Mr Arafat's own Fatah party: in opinion polls, they each have about a quarter of the votes.Sheikh Yassin was one of the voices in Hamas that tried to avoid an open split with Mr Arafat.

Staff at another college tried to avoid an inspection by claiming they were refurbishing the building.

In its cafeteria recently, Ultra fund comanager John A. Sykora picked at a bowl of fresh fruit and tried to avoid an open bag of Cheetos tantalizing him from the lunch tray's far corner.

I tried to avoid a collision, and I went funny".

"Daddy, stop," I mouthed, as I tried to avoid a collision.

Play became more open in the last 15 minutes as teams tried to avoid a shootout.

President Obama tried to avoid a similar problem by moving quickly with his national security appointments.

For months David Cameron has tried to avoid a direct confrontation by making spurious objections to broadcasters' proposals.