Sentence examples for we wished to avoid from inspiring English sources

We later came to recognize the cold, commercial experience offered by this host and others of his ilk, with multiple listings of impersonally furnished places and a willingness to let non-reviewed guests stay, was something we wished to avoid.

Because the rats used in this study were planned to be reused in other studies later to reduce the overall number of rats required, we wished to avoid to put too much stress on them.

In particular, we wished to avoid selecting high-traffic web pages, as these might lead to anomalous responses due to familiarity with the logos, color scheme, or layout of those particular web sites.

An iron-free medium was used which enabled the study of responses to low iron without the use of iron chelators, which we wished to avoid because these also alter the availability of other metal ions.

Third, we wished to avoid gender differences in transcript abundance.

Furthermore we wished to avoid assigning contigs for different homeologous copies to the wrong copy.

Never have we been more in need of information and perspective, for if we wish to avoid war we must understand it.

The New Yorker cover last week was a telling example of the kind of dystopic societies we claim we wish to avoid.

If we wish to avoid plunging ourselves into fuel poverty in the very near future, our house-building criteria will have to change.

If we wish to avoid both a return to monetary nationalism and a permanent euro crisis, then we need to do now what we failed to do at the time of the euro's launch: we need to begin the process of moving towards political union, beginning with the core Europe of the 17 EMU member countries.

I have come to the conclusion after much reluctance that the greater danger to the UN is inaction: that to pass resolution 1441 and then refuse to enforce it would do the most deadly damage to the UN's future strength, confirming it as an instrument of diplomacy but not of action, forcing nations down the very unilateralist path we wish to avoid.