Sentence examples for was working to avoid from inspiring English sources

The commission set no timetable for a bankruptcy filing and said it was working to avoid that.

He said that proponents of capital punishment have concluded that Chief Judge Kaye is opposed to the death penalty and was working to avoid approving an execution.

Mr. O'Keefe said in an interview that the interagency task force gathering options for the president in space policy was working to avoid "pie in the sky" goals that may be grandiose and exciting but impractical for financial and technical reasons.

Nathalie Loiseau, the French EU minister, said there had been intensive discussions and Brussels was working to avoid a no-deal scenario, but that the member states would need to go into meticulous detail over the terms of a customs union.

"Well, now you're working to avoid those".

As he has since the 2000 campaign, Mr. Bush is working to avoid being stuck with simplistic portrayals of himself as an ideologue.

Meanwhile, Tennis Australia, the sport's governing body, is working to avoid a situation similar to that of Britain, where Andy Murray, the lone elite player, is an island.

Back at home my boyfriend and I had broken up but I'd yet to move out; we were working to avoid each other.

Top Shelf's developers say they are working to avoid that problem in future updates, but if you do buy the app, read the iTunes comments before upgrading.

The government is working to avoid problems like this, he says, and will plan for new hydropower plants, for example, to be built away from settlements.

Some retailers are working to avoid this double standard, choosing to adopt the restrictions of the European Union for products sold in the United States.