Example sentences for: obviate

How can you use “obviate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A more accurate rendering of the liberal position would be that rather than a single "general intelligence," there are a handful of crucial--and separate--mental abilities; that none of these abilities is important enough to obviate the role of family background and education; and that native ability (and economic success independent of native ability) can be enhanced by improving education, training, and public health.

  • An editorial in the Sunday Times said the oil embargo and the use of Apache helicopters against Milosevic's tanks might yet obviate the need for a ground war, but a report from Albania in the Sunday Telegraph implied that the United States might never put the helicopters into the air.

  • "The country must move to put bilateral relations back on the rails--and obviate the need for third parties," it said.

  • This observation does not necessarily obviate a direct role for CRY proteins in mediating a response to sleep deprivation.

  • To obviate this bias, we preselected our subjects according to their BMI.


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