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Example sentences for: avoid

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But as more consumers become familiar with online commerce, they may very well begin to shop for products over the Internet precisely to avoid state and local sales taxes .
If the last two decades of deregulation have proved anything, it is that subsidies are easier to avoid than they are to repeal.
Uhm, wasn't it none other than Michael Kinsley, in his years at the New Republic , who originated this line of reasoning when castigating the top Reagan (and later Bush) administration officials who had a nasty tendency to do sleazy things but avoid technical illegality--and thus proclaim themselves "innocent"?
To avoid that, for this recommendation we would have to say something like, "Problematic alcohol-use screening instruments under consideration for use in the ED should be evaluated as a component of protocols that provide alcohol-use interventions for patients to decrease problems or use."
The paper's Washington correspondent noted U.S. reluctance to condemn the army's seizure of power, or even to characterize it as a coup, apparently because it hoped to avoid the automatic triggering of new sanctions against Pakistan.