Sentence examples for was to avoid an from inspiring English sources
"The whole purpose of it was to avoid an American attack," a participant in the discussions recalled last week.
For Morgan Stanley, one of the main goals was to avoid an enormous "pop" in the first day of trading, a sign that an offering may have been priced too low.
According to Warren Treadgold, the Byzantine effort seems to have been led by Irene's chief minister, the eunuch Staurakios, whose strategy was to avoid an immediate confrontation with Harun's huge army, but wait until it had split up and advanced to meet its various detachments independently.
The point was to avoid a template.
The goal was to avoid a stall.
It was to avoid a Third World War.
Step Three was to avoid a genuinely contested presidential election.
What the establishment really wanted was to avoid a scandal.
His first job was to avoid a pair.
A primary incentive to reach a settlement was to avoid a costly trial.
Praise was unknown; the best hope was to avoid a withering putdown.
