Sentence examples for wished to avoid from inspiring English sources

A honor it certainly wished to avoid.

Mourinho, too, wished to avoid the cost of departing.

Actually, moving was something she wished to avoid altogether.

A blood bath is something they wished to avoid.

Mr. Rafsanjani had said he wished to "avoid division" by not running, news reports said.

They wished to avoid an image of which they would never entirely be able to rid themselves.

Usman, who seems to have wished to avoid a final breach, nevertheless agreed that Degel was threatened.

After he was gone she realized she'd fallen in love with him - just the thing she wished to avoid.

One possibility is that he wished to avoid adverse publicity at a time when Boudin was seeking parole.

Irresistibly drawn to the one subject that he wished to avoid, he said, "It's wonderful to see Sarwat.

But it was not a Constitutional crisis that the President wished to avoid — it was the Constitution.