Sentence examples for was eager to avoid from inspiring English sources

Rupert was eager to avoid getting his youngest son into the same mess.

I wanted it to appear ordered and simple to take in, and was eager to avoid cluttering things up.

The implication, many analysts say, is that the Communist Party was eager to avoid highlighting the sort of unbridled official corruption that many Chinese believe is endemic.

It would also require Britain to borrow an additional £111 billion, or $172 billion, through 2015, a step Mr. Osborne was eager to avoid.

What makes him a typically American idealist is not his lust for killing — he was eager to avoid murder if he could — but his indifference to human life lost on the way toward his ideal.

The new building was to occupy the parking lot, but the neighbors in the apartment block objected to losing their park views and the college was eager to avoid confrontation.

Lenders are eager to avoid that risk.

France is eager to avoid military action against Iran.

And they are eager to avoid a conflict with Iran.

It is an outcome that everyone who works here is eager to avoid.

Bullen is eager to avoid invidious comparisons between his new drama and its immensely successful predecessor.