Sentence examples for were not unavoidable from inspiring English sources

Ms. Whitman declined to blame these third-world conditions on "a big Republican plot," but Florida's long lines were not unavoidable.

In both prospect and retrospect, this war was not unavoidable.

"This is not unavoidable, it is a political choice and a deeply damaging one," he says.

His premise is straightforward: inequality is not unavoidable, a fact of life like the weather, but the product of conscious human behaviour.

Politicians will find ways to evade the new constitution's strictures; crooked bankers and businessmen will cook the books and resist restructuring; pressing problems, such as the spread of AIDS and a surge in drug abuse, will be neglected; and the frustrated citizens, aware of their rights but unable to enforce them, will take to the streets.Such are the risks; but they are not unavoidable.

Declines in ecosystem health are not unavoidable forms of collateral damage of peace-time military operations.

It wasn't unavoidable—I'd messed up, and fixed that other character's fate in the process.

John Maynard Keynes argued that budget deficits were not only unavoidable but in fiscal emergencies were even desirable as a means to increase spending, create jobs and cut unemployment.

A Japanese parliamentary report published in July makes it clear that the Fukushima reactor meltdowns were not the unavoidable result of an extraordinary natural disaster.

Those who had not been certified were not included but this was unavoidable from the study design.

The policy was not an unavoidable choice, a practical technocratic decision.