Sentence examples for was anxious to avoid from inspiring English sources

Henderson suggests, plausibly, that the beleaguered Grant administration, staggering into its second term, was anxious to avoid another scandal.

But the Pentagon was anxious to avoid a land campaign and pressed for an escalation of the air campaign.

He told the commission his client was anxious "to avoid the appearance of unwillingness to give evidence".

Robin Mounsey, a BHA spokesman, was anxious to avoid the impression that the two sides to the dispute were at loggerheads.

The enormous increase in landownership among Africans in the postindependence period also helped to create a modestly prosperous class that was anxious to avoid revolutionary change, while the powers vested in the presidency made successful opposition an unlikely prospect.

His foreign minister, Markos Kyprianou, wanted new sanctions on the Turks for refusing to open their ports and airports to the Greek-Cypriots, something Mr Christofias was anxious to avoid.

Some farmers are anxious to avoid cuts in crop subsidies.

Both America and China are anxious to avoid clashes.

The food and drink industry is anxious to avoid regulation.

The Liberals were also economic nationalists who were anxious to avoid economic subordination to foreigners.

Developing countries, including China and India, are anxious to avoid measures that would curtail their economies.