Avoided Sentence Examples

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  • She swallowed hard and avoided his gaze.

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  • He had simply avoided it.

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  • She stiffened and avoided his gaze.

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  • Natasha did not speak to Sonya again and avoided her.

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  • He escaped from Brecknock Castle to Flanders, avoided Buckingham's fate, and devoted his energies during the next two years to creating a party in England and abroad in the interests of the earl of Richmond.

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  • He picked at his food, and avoided eye contact with Adrienne.

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  • In fact she had avoided - even pushed away those who might want to claim close friendship.

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  • Sofia felt Rainy's hard gaze but avoided his heated look.

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  • He.d sensed Katie.s appearance in the castle a short time ago and had avoided going directly to her, for fear he wasn.t quite ready to say what he needed to.

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  • Jackson stared at Elisabeth, who still avoided eye contact.

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  • He avoided eye contact with everyone.

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  • Warmth flooded up her neck and she avoided his eyes.

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  • Again she had avoided death.

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  • He avoided her gaze and began wrapping her foot.

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  • Since his wife left, he's avoided relationships because he's afraid of giving his heart again only to drive another love away.

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  • Brandon squirmed in his chair and avoided Adrienne's gaze.

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  • That could be attributed greatly to the fact that she had avoided any relationships.

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  • He avoided her troubled gaze.

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  • For a moment she avoided him.

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  • She avoided his eyes by examining the contents of the refrigerator.

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  • Kris accepted the glass of whiskey but avoided Jade's extended hand.

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  • She avoided turning around to see what must have been a hulking grey mass of metal spaceship.

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  • Most of Sarah's boyfriends gave him a wide berth and avoided contact at all cost.

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  • As she kept trying to grab the pad, he avoided her reach and flipped through it.

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  • She made a job of searching through the cabinet for the cat food and avoided his gaze as she handed him the box.

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  • He tugged his gloves off and avoided her eyes.

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  • Sometimes it's hard to broach a subject – especially when you've avoided it for a while.

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  • He avoided her eyes.

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  • She avoided church because she was too embarrassed to face everyone.

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  • Ashley avoided her gaze and twisted the sheet with her hands.

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  • Otherwise, he avoided everything but raw meat.

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  • The chief success of the government lay in the field of foreign politics, where it prudently avoided entanglement in the ambitious schemes of Hellenistic monarchs, but gained great prestige by energetic interference against aggressors who threatened the existing balance of power or the security of the seas.

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  • Politics, which de Lesseps had always avoided, was his greatest enemy in this matter.

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  • The Spaniards skilfully avoided a battle, and in Alva November the invaders were compelled to withdraw triumph- p ant.

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  • He was exceedingly fond of horses and hunting, leaping ditches prudently avoided by the foreign ambassadors.

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  • The grappling of the cable and raising it to the surface from a depth of 2000 fathoms seldom occupy less than twenty-four hours, and since any extra strain due to the pitching of the vessel must be avoided, it is clear that the state of the sea and weather is the predominating factor in the time necessary for effecting the long series of operations which, in the most favourable circumstances, are required for a repair.

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  • Since by international agreement the wilful damage of a cable has been constituted a criminal offence, and the cable companies have avoided crossing the fishing banks, or have adopted the wise policy of refunding the value of anchors lost on their cables, the number of such fractures has greatly diminished.

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  • For some time after the occupation of Rome the pope, in order to substantiate the pretence that his spiritual freedom had been diminished, avoided the creation of cardinals and the nomination of bishops.

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  • Before his house was pulled down, when his comrades avoided it as "an unlucky castle," I visited it.

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  • But much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much as they enjoyed their Rhine wine, saute, and ices, and however they avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave that the story about Sergey Kuzmich, the laughter, and the food were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was directed to-- Pierre and Helene.

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  • I'll teach you to think! and lifting his stick he swung it and would have hit Alpatych, the overseer, had not the latter instinctively avoided the blow.

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  • He was about to embrace his friend, but Nicholas avoided him.

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  • He ceased keeping a diary, avoided the company of the Brothers, began going to the club again, drank a great deal, and came once more in touch with the bachelor sets, leading such a life that the Countess Helene thought it necessary to speak severely to him about it.

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  • She not merely avoided all external forms of pleasure--balls, promenades, concerts, and theaters--but she never laughed without a sound of tears in her laughter.

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  • The Russian army and people avoided a collision till Smolensk was reached, and again from Smolensk to Borodino.

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  • Though she concealed from him her intention of keeping him under her wing, Petya guessed her designs, and instinctively fearing that he might give way to emotion when with her--might "become womanish" as he termed it to himself--he treated her coldly, avoided her, and during his stay in Moscow attached himself exclusively to Natasha for whom he had always had a particularly brotherly tenderness, almost lover-like.

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  • After that he avoided Dessalles and the countess who caressed him and either sat alone or came timidly to Princess Mary, or to Natasha of whom he seemed even fonder than of his aunt, and clung to them quietly and shyly.

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  • They spoke of personal reminiscences, of amusing scenes they had witnessed during the campaign, and avoided all talk of their present situation.

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  • He tried to avoid his old acquaintances with their commiseration and offensive offers of assistance; he avoided all distraction and recreation, and even at home did nothing but play cards with his mother, pace silently up and down the room, and smoke one pipe after another.

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  • Only the really heartless, the stupid ones of that household, and the little children failed to understand this and avoided her.

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  • All of this would've been avoided.

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  • At church Sunday, the subject that she was staying at his house was avoided.

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  • It is probable that these later Cynics adapted themselves somewhat to the times in which they lived and avoided the crude extravagance of Diogenes and others.

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  • It is noteworthy that even the third Duma in its address to the throne, if it avoided the tabooed word " Constitution," avoided also all mention of autocracy.

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  • So marked are these evils that such partial competition is avoided by agreements between the competing lines with regard to rates, and by divisions of traffic, or pools, which shall take away the temptation to violate such rate agreements.

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  • In Great Britain the Board of Trade requires facing points to be avoided as far as possible; but, of course, they are a necessity at junctions where running lines diverge and at the crossing places which must be provided to enable trains to pass each other on single-track lines.

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  • When unhealthy situations cannot be avoided, they may be rendered more healthy by destroying the breeding-grounds of mosquitoes in the neighbourhood.

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  • Exposure at night should be avoided.

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  • Speaking generally, they seem to have avoided giving offence to their subjects.

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  • While British India has so far avoided actual geographical contact with one great European power in Asia on the north and west, she has touched another on the east.

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  • The left wing of the Persians under Tissaphernes avoided a serious conflict with the Greeks; Cyrus in the centre threw himself upon Artaxerxes, but was slain in a desperate struggle.

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  • In specialized biting insects, such as beetles (Coleo C ptera), the labium tends to become a hard transverse plate bearing the pair of palps, a median structure - known as the ligula - formed of the conjoined laciniae, and a pair of small rounded processes - the reduced galeae - often called the " paraglossae," a term better avoided since it has been applied also to the maxillulae of Aptera, entirety different structures.

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  • President Harding avoided the example set by his predecessor, and did not himself participate as a delegate.

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  • Irrigation, introduced in 1888 by the orange growers, has been adapted by other farmers, especially the tobacco-growers of Gadsden county, and so the evil effects of the droughts, so common from February to June, are avoided.

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  • Commercial warfare was to be avoided because of the cost.

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  • Gallatin worked at his new task with his usual industry, tact and patience, but the results were meagre, although an open breach on the delicate question of the north-east boundary of the United States was avoided by referring it to the arbitration of the king of the Netherlands.

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  • Exaggeration, however, is not always to be avoided, for even on the British 1 in.

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  • He remained in Egypt four years, his period of office coinciding with the first great reforms, after the danger of bankruptcy had been avoided.

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  • Speaking next day at a luncheon given in his honour, answering critics who alleged that with more time and patience on the part of Great Britain war might have been avoided, he asserted that what they were asked to "conciliate" was "panoplied hatred, insensate ambition, invincible ignorance."

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  • At his accession Orkhan was practically on the same footing with these, and avoided weakening himself in the struggle for the Seljukian inheritance, preferring at first to consolidate his forces at Brusa.

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  • Had this act been ratified by the government at Athens, a war between Greece and the Ottoman Empire could hardly have been avoided; but a royal rescript was issued by the king of the Hellenes on the 30th of September 1910, declaring vacant the three seats to which the Cretan representatives had been elected; the immediate danger was thus averted.

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  • Water must now be copiously supplied to the border, and air admitted in abundance, but cold draughts which favour the attack of mildew must be avoided.

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  • He skilfully avoided entanglement in the Jackson-Calhoun imbroglio.

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  • Soc., 1886, 40, 495 or by reversals - the source of error due to the transverse cut thus being avoided.

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  • In the magnetic balance of du Bois (Magnetic Circuit, p. 346) the uncertainty arising from the presence of a joint is avoided, the force measured being that exerted between two pieces of iron separated from each other by a narrow air-gap of known width.

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  • It seems that confusion and trouble will be best avoided by abstaining from the introduction of the non-evident somites, the ocular and the praegenital, into the numerical nomenclature of the component somites of the three great body regions.

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  • The scheme came into operation in June 1898, and not only was a complete suspension of payments avoided but the financial situation was greatly improved.

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  • This was indeed a time when questions concerning boundaries were springing up on every side, for it was only through the moderation with which the high-handed action of Bolivia in regard to the Acre rubberproducing territory was met by the Brazilian government that war was avoided.

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  • Its great merit consists in the complete notation and symbolism, which avoided the cumbersome expressions of the earlier algebraists, and reduced the art to a form closely resembling that of to-day.

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  • Both men and women avoided washing, but there was something of the nature of a vapour bath, with which Herodotus has confused a custom of using the smoke of hemp as a narcotic. The women daubed themselves with a kind of cosmetic paste.

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  • The prestige of the country was practically gone, not only with the world outside, but, what was of still more moment, with her neighbour the Free State, which felt that a federation with the Transvaal, which the Free State once had sought but which it now forswore, was an evil avoided and not an advantage lost.

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  • By this method only can the fallacies which are attendant on drawing conclusions from isolated cases be avoided; and thus the chief objection which has been made to regarding medicine as an inductive science has been removed.

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  • Hostilities were avoided, but the Zulu occupied the land north of the Pongolo.

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  • While the risk of loss of capital is not to be avoided, it is of the utmost importance to limit the amount of money expended while the extent and value of the deposit are still uncertain and to do the necessary work by the cheapest methods consistent with thoroughness.

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  • A mine should always be opened by drift or entry if practicable, as thereby the expense of hoisting and pumping is avoided.

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  • Narrow and contracted working-places are to be avoided, as in such places the cost of breaking ground is always large.

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  • Sharp curves should be avoided, especially for mechanical haulage.

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  • By using compressed air vitiation of the mine air is avoided, as well as all danger of fire or explosion of gas.

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  • Cornish pumps are economical in running expenses, provided the driving engine is of proper design and the disadvantages incurred in conveying steam underground are avoided.

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  • The so-called oil air-pumps are much more efficient; the valve difficulty is avoided, and the risk of leakage minimized; whilst in addition there is no air clearance between the piston and the base of the cylinder as in the older mechanical forms. The Fleuss pump may be taken as an example.

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  • It is, in fact, admitted that some of the glasses, most useful optically, the dense barium crown glasses, which are so widely used in modern photographic lenses, cannot be produced entirely free either from noticeable colour or from numerous small bubbles, while the chemical nature of these glasses is so sensitive that considerable care is required to protect the surfaces of lenses made from them if serious tarnishing is to be avoided.

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  • The raw materials are selected with great care to assure chemical purity, but whereas in most glasses the only impurities to be dreaded are those that are either infusible or produce a colouring effect upon the glass, for optical purposes the admixture of other glass-forming bodies than those which are intended to be present must be avoided on account of their effect in modifying the optical constants of the glass.

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  • The balance of opinion was in favour of those of the first group of writers, who avoided emendations of the figures and were content to follow the Kings' List and to ignore its apparent discrepancies with other chronological data; but it is now admitted that the general principle underlying the third group of theories was actually nearer the truth.

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  • Thus a maximum of filtering surface with a minimum of liquor in each bag is obtained, and a fa .r greater number of bags are got into a given area that would otherwise be possible, while the danger of bursting the bags by leaving them unsupported is avoided.

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  • The alkali must be free from carbonate and an excess of it must be avoided, otherwise the hydrate redissolves.

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  • The filtrate, which may be collected in glass vessels if an excess of hydrofluoric acid has been avoided, deposits the greater part of the salt on cooling.

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  • Dittmar showed that this may be avoided by leading a fine, steady stream of dry gas - air, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, &c., according to the substance operated upon - through the liquid by means of a fine capillary tube, the lower end of which reaches to nearly the bottom of the flask.

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  • In this case stimulants and strychnine may be given, but they should be avoided until it is certain the bleeding has been properly controlled, as they tend to increase it.

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  • At the same time he astutely avoided offending the party in England which was opposed to James.

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  • But it is better to apply the Boyle's law test in addition, provided that errors due to, surface condensation can be avoided.

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  • The explanation of this phenomenon is to be found in the fact that anthropomorphisms, as such, were not necessarily avoided, but only in those cases where they might be misunderstood by the people.

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  • In contrast to the great French actress she avoided all "make-up"; her art depended on intense naturalness rather than stage effect, sympathetic force and poignant intellectuality rather than the theatrical emotionalism of the French tradition.

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  • An ordinary commander would have avoided fighting altogether, but Marlborough saw beyond the material conditions and risked all on his estimate of the moral superiority of his army and of the weakness of the French leading.

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  • In early life he became attached to republican principles, which he never abandoned, although he avoided offending Augustus by too open an expression of them.

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  • If, however, the gas be first passed through a scrubber so as to wash out the ammonia this danger is avoided.

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  • The consecration of material objects and in general their use in religion and cult was consistently avoided by the Manicheans; not because they failed to share the universal belief of earlier ages that spirits can be inducted by means of fitting prayers and incantations into inanimate things, but because the external material world was held to be the creation of an evil demiurge and so incapable of harbouring a pure spirit.

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  • This avoided the necessity of readjusting the dies between blows, and ensured greater accuracy in the impression.

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  • The process will probably be abandoned as soon as the tarnishing of the metal during rolling and annealing can be avoided.

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  • There was in the Orange Colony a considerable body of opinion that the party system of government should be avoided, and that the executive should consist of three members elected by the single representative chamber it was desired to obtain, and three members nominated by the governor - in short, what was desired was a restoration as far as possible of the old Free State constitution.

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  • These stresses will be unknown quantities, which the designer cannot take into account, and such a combination should if possible be avoided.

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  • An alliance, on fairly equal terms, between the three powers, would, in these circumstances, be the consummation of Griffenfeldt's "system"; an alliance with France to the exclusion of Sweden would be the next best policy; but an alliance between France and Sweden, without the admission of Denmark, was to be avoided at all hazards.

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  • The threatened breach with Russia had been avoided by Metternich's influence on the tsar Alexander; the death of Ali of Iannina had set free the army of Khurshid Pasha, who now, as seraskier of Rumelia, was charged with the task of reducing the Morea.

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  • Of such monosyllables there are less than two thousand, and therefore many syllables have to do duty for the expression of more than one idea, confusion being avoided by the tone in which they are spoken, whence the term" tonal,"which is applied to all the languages of this family.

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  • The imitation of Dutch arrangements has been avoided, and the natural advantages of the situation and climate have been turned to account.

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  • In Germany the Reformers called themselves usually evangelici, and avoided special designations for their communities, which they conceived only as part of the true Catholic Church; "Calvinists," "Lutherans," "Zwinglians" were, in the main, terms of abuse intended to stamp them as followers of one or other heretical leader, like Arians or Hussites.

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  • These, however, had far too strong a hold upon the Roman world for a reaction against the new tendency to be long avoided.

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  • The great oracles, however, were of Panhellenic celebrity and did not serve each a particular state, and so in this direction also the risk of an independent priestly power within the state was avoided.'

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  • Claudius resented the appointment of Cicero as his successor, avoided meeting him, and even issued orders after his arrival in the province.

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  • The Jagiellos, as a rule, prudently avoided committing themselves to any political system which might irritate the still distant but much-dreaded Turk, but when their dominions extended so far southwards as to embrace Moldavia, the observance of a strict neutrality became exceedingly difficult.

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  • Complications with the Turk were avoided by the adroit diplomacy of the king, while the superior discipline and efficiency of the Polish armies under the great Tarnowski (q.v.) and his pupils overawed the Tatars and extruded the Muscovites, neither of whom were so troublesome as they had been during the last reign.

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  • Indeed, it is not too much to say that, until the days of Sobieski, the Cossacks were invariably the chief cause of the breaches between the Porte and the Republic. We have seen how carefully the Jagiellos avoided participating in any of the crusades directed by the Holy See against the arch-enemies of the Cross.

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  • Fresh manure should be avoided, but the remains from an old hot-bed or mushroom bed may be incorporated.

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  • But Castlereagh saw that war could only be avoided if one party was made stronger than the other.

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  • It is, therefore, further recommended (a) that the milk be rapidly cooled or chilled, as the lower the temperature the less do the bacteria multiply, (b) that contamination during railway transit be avoided by dustproof locked milk cans.

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  • She thus avoided the enmity and the still more dangerous favour of Northumberland; and some unknown history lies behind the duke's preference of the Lady Jane to Elizabeth as his son's wife and his own puppet for the throne.

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  • Edwards personally reprimanded Whitefield for presuming to say of any one that he was unconverted, and in his Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion devoted much space to "showing what things are to be corrected, or avoided, in promoting this work."

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  • By this arrangement the capricious divisions of some books is avoided.

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  • Until July he was engaged in a series of skilful operations directed to menacing the British islands while he avoided being brought to battle by Rodney.

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  • Physically incapable of rising to passionate heights of oratory, Cotta's successes were chiefly due to his searching investigation of facts; he kept strictly to the essentials of the case and avoided all irrelevant digressions.

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  • It rarely substitutes directly, because the hydriodic acid produced reverses the reaction; this can be avoided by the presence of precipitated mercuric oxide or iodic acid, which react with the hydriodic acid as fast as it is formed, and consequently remove it from the reacting system.

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  • Electrostatic voltmeters are also liable to have their indications disturbed by electrification of the glass cover of the instrument; this can be avoided by varnishing the glass with a semi-conducting varnish so as to prevent the location of electrostatic charges on the glass.

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  • If Oscar did not actively assist the Opposition on this occasion, his disapprobation of his father's despotic behaviour was notorious, though he avoided an actual rupture.

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  • Many persons appear to suppose that decisions upon doubtful points can be avoided by the expedient of leaving the traditional reading in possession of the text.

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  • Its principal, though perhaps least obvious advantage, consists in its being entirely independent of astronomical tables, or indeed of any celestial phenomena whatever; so that all chances of disagreement arising from the inevitable errors of tables, or the uncertainty of observation, are avoided, and Easter determined without the possibility of mistake.

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  • The Christians of the early centuries, looking for corporeal resurrection, avoided the incisions, extraction of organs, &c., practised by their pagan forefathers, and buried the body entire after pickling it in salt.

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  • Political topics were studiously avoided in general conversation, and books or newspapers in which the most keen-scented press-censor could detect the least odour of political or religious free-thinking were strictly prohibited.

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  • Prince Gorchakov could then declare to Europe, "La Russie ne boude pas; elle se recueille"; and for fifteen years he avoided foreign complications, so that the internal strength of the country might be developed, while the national pride and ambition received a certain satisfaction by the expansion of Russian influence and domination in Asia.

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  • He was prepared to fight another battle on the morrow - indeed he could scarcely have avoided it had he wished to do so, for behind him lay the mountain defiles, towards which Vandamme was marching with all speed.

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  • By fixing the areas of these spheres of influence rival states in western and central Africa avoided conflicts and preserved their rights until they were able to take a more effective part in their development.

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  • Forts which had been erected at salient points on either side of the lakes and rivers dividing the United States from Canada, which but for this agreement would, in the natural course of events, have been enlarged, increasingly garrisoned, and provided with modern implements of destruction, at large expense, have remained substantially as when the agreement was made, or now constitute but interesting or picturesque ruins; and the great cost of constructing and maintaining, through a long series of years, naval armaments of ever-increasing power has been avoided."

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  • We are enabled by means of it to extend materially the range of our observation, especially if the ordinary kinds of glass, which strongly absorb ultraviolet light, are avoided, and, when necessary, replaced by quartz.

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  • If a thickwalled capillary tube is passed over the platinum tube and its length so adjusted that the liquid rises in it by capillary action just above the level of the tube, the spectrum may be examined directly, and the loss of light due to the passage through the partially wetted surface of the walls of the tube is avoided.

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  • There can be no doubt that he looked with apprehension on the growing power of the British; but he wisely avoided any serious collision with them.

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  • Thus, where the judges who try an election petition report that there has been treating, undue influence, or any illegal practice by the candidate or his election agent, but that it was trivial, unimportant and of a limited character, and contrary to the orders and without the sanction or connivance of the candidate or his election agent, and that the candidate and his election agent took all reasonable means for preventing corrupt and illegal practices, and that the election was otherwise free from such practices on their part, the election will not be avoided.

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  • The petition may allege that the election was avoided as to the borough or ward on the ground of general bribery, &c., or that the election of the person petitioned against was avoided by corrupt practices, or by personal disqualification, or that he had not the majority of lawful votes.

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  • Both held property in common; both had scattered communities which received guests one from the other; both avoided a light use of oaths; both taught passive obedience to political authority.

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  • He thus at least avoided an open rupture with the new emperor - a rupture which would have been all the more perilous on account of the religious revolution now imminent in Germany.

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  • The routine of university business he avoided with contempt, and refused the vice-chancellorship. But while living the life of a student, he was fond of society, and especially of the society of women.

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  • Experience shows that, although spherical pebbles are to be avoided, Portland cement adheres tightly to smooth flint surfaces, and that rough stones often give a less compact concrete than smooth ones on account of the difficulty of bedding them into the matrix when laying the concrete.

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  • Modern engineers favour the practice of having the stones of various sizes instead of being uniform, because if these sizes are wisely proportioned the whole mixture can be made more solid, and the rough "pockets" avoided.

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  • In these cases the concrete should be allowed to take all it can, but an excess of water which would flow away, carrying the cement with it, should be avoided.

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  • Sometimes rough concrete is rendered over with a plaster of cement and sand after the shutters have been removed, but this is liable to peel off and should be avoided.

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  • On this account it is usual to neglect the tensile strength of concrete in designing structures, and to arrange the material in such a way that tensile stresses are avoided.

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  • Even though the best hydraulic lime be used it is wise to confine it to places where it is not exposed to the air, or to running water, and indeed for important structures the use of lime should be avoided.

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  • Limestone should be avoided, as it soon splits under heat.

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  • But it is difficult and expensive to work up into various forms. Concrete has been avoided for making beams, slabs and thin walls, just because its deficiency in tensile strength doomed it to failure in such structures.

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  • While knighthood was avoided by poor nobles, it was coveted by rich citizens.

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  • In the "Iphigenia," like the "Intrepid," the engine room ratings had avoided being taken off, so as to be present at the fight.

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  • Planting late in spring should, as far as possible, be avoided, for the buds then begin to awaken into active life, and the draught upon the roots becomes great.

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  • Whatever the form, there must be light in abundance; and the shade both of buildings and of trees must be avoided.

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  • Loam which contains much red matter (iron) should be avoided.

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  • When the disturbance of the roots incidental to all transplanting is sought to be avoided, the seed or plant is started in some cases in squares of turf (used grassy-side downwards), which can when ready be transferred to the place the plant is to occupy.

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  • Standard Fruit Trees should not be planted, if it can be avoided, in the borders of the kitchen garden, but in the outer slips, where they either may be allowed to attain their full size or may be kept dwarfed.

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  • The pharmacopoeial mixture is best avoided, being almost uniquely nauseous.

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  • It has long been seen that there would be a great saving if this remelting could be avoided and " direct metal," i.e.

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  • Moreover, since local cooling, with its consequent viscosity and tendency to froth, are avoided, the frothing is not excessive in spite of the rapidity of the reaction.

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  • Sunlight has a tendency to bleach furs and to encourage the development of moth eggs, therefore continued exposure is to be avoided.

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  • Starting from the hypothesis that Sweden was "DenmarkNorway's most active and irreconcilable enemy," Bernstorff logically included France, the secular ally of Sweden, among the hostile powers with whom an alliance was to be avoided, and drew near to Great Britain as the natural foe of France, especially during the American War of Independence, and this too despite the irritation occasioned in Denmark-Norway by Great Britain's masterful interpretation of the expression "contraband."

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  • By his absence he had avoided implication in the troubles at home.

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  • This can only be avoided where the ground is covered with old turf which will bear to be lifted.

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  • The murder of the dramatist Kotzebue, as an agent of this reaction, in the following year, by a fanatical student named Karl Sand, clinched the matter; it became obvious to the governments that a policy of rigorous repression was necessary if a fresh revolution were to be avoided.

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  • A definite defeat of Prussia on an important question of policy must bring about a serious crisis; it is generally avoided because, as the meetings are secret, an arrangement or compromise can be made.

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  • The government tried to nd priests to occupy the vacant parishes; few consented to do so, and the Slaalskatholiken who consented to the new laws were avoided by their parishioners.

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  • A strong feeling arose that social and political dangers could only be avoided by an increase in religious life, and the emperor gave the authority of his name to a movement which produced numerous societies for home mission work, and (at least in Berlin) led to the erection of numerous churches.

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  • If that principle had been firmly laid down and clearly understood at the beginning, a good deal ofneedless friction would have been avoided.

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  • He carefully avoided all foreign complications; refused to participate in the Schmalkaldic war of 1546; mediated between the emperor and Saxony after the fall of Maurice of Saxony at the battle of Sievershausen in 1553, and contributed essentially to the conclusion of peace.

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  • By this method grinding the hard limestone is avoided, but there is an extra expenditure of fuel in the double burning.

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  • The structure is free to take its permanent position before the lime sets, and cracks are thus avoided.

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  • Foreign intervention was avoided through the renewal of war between Francis and Charles; and the insurgents were hampered by having no rival candidate for the throne and no means of securing the execution of their programme.

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  • Fatigue from physical exertion is a predisposing cause of heat-stroke, and constipation and alcoholic indulgence should be avoided.

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  • The effects of exposure in the case of white races are not only manifested by the acute attack of heat-stroke, but, if this is avoided by proper care, it is nevertheless certain that long residence in the Persian Gulf causes a certain amount of tissue degeneration, owing to the exposure of the body cells to abnormal conditions of temperature.

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  • Gilding, stains and lacquers, electro-plating, chasing, "matting," frosting, burnishing, mechanically produced mouldings and enrichments, and the other processes esteemed in the 10th century, are disused and avoided.

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  • Moreover it is of a most disagreeable kind, as the waste "still-liquor," containing very much free hydrochloric acid and even some free chlorine, forms a most deleterious impurity when finding its way into drains or watercourses, apart from the intolerable nuisance caused by the escapes of chlorine from the stills and otherwise, which cannot be at all times avoided.

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  • This change of the calcium sulphide may be brought about either by the oxidizing action of the air or by " hydrolysis," produced by prolonged contact with hot water, the use of which, on the other hand, cannot be avoided in order to extract the sodium carbonate itself.

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  • By a cleverly devised ruse he avoided General Colonna's force, which expected him on the.

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  • Rhythm was avoided by Caesar who was an Atticist, and by Sallust who was an archaist.

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  • Falkenhayn's refusal to join in the enterprise was based on various grounds; his belief in the prospects of success at Verdun; his anxiety regarding the Russian front, and, probably, the idea that a formal state of war between Germany and Italy might still be avoided.

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  • With preheating this is avoided, and the amount of work done by a given quantity of air is increased by the conversion into work of a part of the supplementary energy which the preheater supplies in the form of heat.

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  • It is found by these methods that the behaviour of superheated vapours closely resembles that of noncondensible gases, and it is a fair inference that similar behaviour would be observed up to the saturation-point if surface condensation could be avoided.

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  • Indeed it is hard to see how it can be avoided on the theory that the author of Acts used a travel-document by another hand (see below, Sources).

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  • Convinced that only by proper scientific investigations could the wholesale destruction of Egyptian antiquities be avoided, she devoted herself to arousing public opinion on the subject, and ultimately, in 1882, was largely instrumental in founding the Egypt Exploration Fund, of which she became joint honorary secretary with Reginald Stuart Poole.

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  • The use of frames which approximate to a critical form is of course to be avoided in practice.

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  • Unless there is some special reason for using impact in machines, it ought to be avoided, on account not only of the wasteof energy which it causes, but from the damage which it occasions to the frame and mechanism.

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  • Zeus has acquired the character of a supreme moral ruler; and although Athena and Poseidon are adverse influences in the poem, the notion of a direct contest between them is scrupulously avoided.

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  • Setting aside those which are but occasional visitors to the British Islands, six species of terns may be regarded as indigenous, though of them one has ceased from ordinarily breeding in the United Kingdom, while a second has become so rare and regularly appears in so few places that mention of them must for prudence sake be avoided.

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  • The delay attendant on this method of purification is avoided by treating the crude oil with 1 to 2% of a somewhat strong sulphuric acid, which chars and carries down the bulk of the impurities.

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  • It is equally a soul or spirit in wine which inspires the intoxicated; the old Egyptian kings avoided wine at table and in libations, because it was the blood of rebels who had fought with the gods, and out of whose rotting bodies grew the vines; to drink the blood was to imbibe the soul of these rebels, and the frenzy of intoxication which followed was held to be possession by their spirits.

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  • The difficulties which threatened to arise about the union were skilfully avoided; the Act of Security provided that the Confession of Faith and the Presbyterian government should " continue without any alteration to the people of this land in all succeeding ages," and the first oath taken by Queen Anne at her accession was to preserve it.

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  • The first step was thus gained, and it was hoped that if " infusion " could be avoided, if the papers bearing on the case were presented to the judges quickly, and before their minds could be swayed by extraneous influence, their decision on the case would be the same as that of the king.

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  • Neutral solutions are to be avoided because in them silver dissolves from the anode and, being more electro-negative than copper, is deposited at the cathode, while antimony and arsenic are also deposited, imparting a dark colour to the copper.

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  • A plantation of Scotch fir requires frequent and careful thinning as the young trees increase in size; but pruning should be avoided as much as possible, excepting for the removal of dead wood.

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  • Alcohol should be avoided as much as possible.

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  • Where the stomach and bowels are irritable, all food likely to cause mechanical irritation should be avoided, such as skins, bones, fibres and seeds.

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  • Charles, by Hyde's advice, had not interfered in the movement, and had avoided inconvenient concessions to the various factions by referring all to a " free parliament."

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  • But on account of this depressant action it is to be avoided for women and children and rarely used for men.

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  • Many small rooms and tortuous paths, where nothing of special interest can be found, are avoided as much as possible on the regular routes; but certain disagreeable experiences are inevitable.

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  • Nor were his intimate associates men of refinement and taste; they were rather good fellows who quietly enjoyed a good bottle and a joke; he uniformly avoided encounters of wit with his equals.

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  • The process described by Quincke is somewhat elaborate; but there is little difficulty in repeating the experiment if the mistake be avoided of using a free surface already contaminated, as almost inevitably happens when the mercury is poured from an ordinary bottle.

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  • But it may be doubted whether the length of the continuous portion obeys any very simple laws, even when external disturbances are avoided as far as possible.

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  • There are many allusions to persons and events of the day, but political bitterness seems to have been commonly avoided.

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  • An open rupture between the allies was only avoided by the establishment of a condominium.

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  • And, with but one or two exceptions, they avoided wildness in their language as much as in the general scheme of theology they proposed.

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  • He served on the most comfortable stations, and avoided the more arduous work of the navy.

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  • A local synod at Constantinople, in August 1872, pronounced it schismatical; Antioch, Alexandria and Greece followed suit; Jerusalem pronounced a modified condemnation; and the Servian and Rumanian churches avoided any definite expression of opinion.

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  • The dominating ambition of his life was to achieve fame, but though that sometimes betrayed him into petty jealousy, it did not leave him insensible to the claims on his knowledge of the "cause of humanity," to use a phrase often employed by him in connexion with his invention of the miners' lamp. Of the smaller observances of etiquette he was careless, and his frankness of disposition sometimes exposed him to annoyances which he might have avoided by the exercise of ordinary tact.

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  • Perhaps there is not another instance in history in which a man who was neither a soldier, nor a diplomatist, nor a writer, who appealed to no passion but patriotism, and who avoided power with almost oriental indolence instead of seeking it, became, in the course of a long life, the leader of a great party by sheer force of intellect and moral superiority.

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  • But the new system was to apply only to those who, in return for the greater privileges which it was alleged to ensure, would agree to a resurvey of their lands, arrange to pay quit-rents and provide for the permanent support of the government, and as Governor Lawrie found the colonists generally unwilling to make the exchange on the proposed terms, he discreetly refrained from any attempt to put the Fundamental Constitutions in operation and thereby avoided the confusion which must have resulted from two sets of laws.

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  • He avoided all participation in the trial of the king in June 1649, being employed in the settlement of the west of England.

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  • In the latter winds Sorrento should be especially avoided, as no safe anchorage can be found there at less than 15 fathoms, and the same remark applies to Capri with winds from S.W.

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  • But in parliament he had lost all influence, and is described as wandering about neglected and avoided.

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  • The distance between joists should be limited to 5 or 6 ft.; horizontal bracing by means of diagonal rods is sometimes used, but should be avoided.

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  • In spite of defeats inflicted on the Turks by the imperial troops at Pozharevats, Nish and Vidin, in 1689, it was only by an exercise of force that they secured winter quarters in Walachia.; and though, after the battle of Poltava in 1709, Brancovan concluded a secret treaty with the tsar Peter the Great, he avoided giving open effect to it.

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  • The Poles avoided an encounter in the open field, but harried the Germans so successfully around Breslau that the plain was covered with corpses, which Henry had to leave to the dogs on his disastrous retreat; hence the scene of the action was known as "the field of dogs."

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  • Only a knowledge of the great loss of capital that has resulted from abortive reservoir construction justifies this notice of defects which can always be avoided, and are too often the direct result, not of design, but of parsimony in providing during the execution of such works, and especially below ground, a sufficiency of intelligent, experienced and conscientious supervision.

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  • Very long main drains are to be avoided.

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  • This can never be entirely avoided, and sometimes causes trouble in the succeeding apparatus.

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  • The English deputation lent their aid to Sigismund at the council of Constance, when Christendom was at last reunited under a single head, though all the reforms which were to have accompanied the reunion were postponed, and ultimately avoided altogether, by the restored papacy.

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  • When it is added that the Lancastrian party avoided holding a parliament for three years, because they dared not face it, and that the French were allowed to sack Fowey, Sandwich and other places because there was no English fleet in existence, it is not wonderful that many men thought that the cup of the iniquities of the house of Lancaster was full.

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  • Macaulay is not greatly superior in impartiality to Hume; Gibbon and Robertson were less open to temptation because they avoided English subjects.

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  • The chief advantage of this apparatus is that a low temperature can be used for fixing owing to the enormous surface for superheating, and thus to a great extent the deposition of carbon is avoided.

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  • Friction between the settlers and the Indians could not long be avoided, and in 1827 Red Bird and his band of Winnebago attacked the whites, but after some bloodshed they were defeated by Major William Whistler (1780-1863) of Fort Howard.

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  • He observed everything, thought ever, but avoided serious discussion.

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  • He secured the truce with Poland and carefully avoided complications with the Porte.

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  • But happiness so definitely signifies a state of feeling that it will not admit the interpretation that Aristotle (as well as Plato and the Stoics) expressly gives to eu5acuovia; the confusion is best avoided by rendering the word by the less familiar " well-being."

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  • The Stoics answered that the error which was the essence of vice was so far voluntary that it could be avoided if men chose to exercise their reason.

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  • He now only contends that " virtue deserves to be chosen for its own sake, and vice to be avoided, though a man was sure for his own particular neither to gain nor lose anything by the practice of either."

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  • In later editions he avoided this strain on usage by substituting or adding " merit " in several passages - allowing that some of the laudable qualities which he mentions would be more commonly called talents," but still maintaining that " there is little distinction made in our internal estimation " of " virtues " and " talents."

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  • There is, however, in Tucker's theological link between private and general happiness a peculiar ingenuity which Paley's common sense has avoided.

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  • Thus, the miser first sought money as a means to comfort, but ends by sacrificing comfort to money; and similarly though the first promptings to justice (or any other virtue) spring from the non-moral pleasures gained or pains avoided by it, through the link formed by repeated virtuous acts the performance of them ultimately comes to have that immediate satisfaction attached to it which we distinguished as moral.

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  • For six years Aeschines avoided action on this notice.

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  • But with her usual prudence she avoided every appearance of an open rupture.

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  • This in itself was a great burden, as Chinese composition, if wrong impressions are to be avoided, demands extreme care and accuracy.

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  • He did subdue Aquitaine completely, thanks to his brother Charibert, with whom he had avoided dividing the kingdom, and he tried to restore his own demesne, which had been despoiled by the granting of benefices or by the pious frauds of the Church.

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  • It had to wait two centuries after the revolution of 987 before it was strong enough to take up the dormant tradition of an authority like that of Rome; and until then it cunningly avoided unequal strife in which, victory being impossible, reverses might have weakened those titles, higher than any due to feudal rights, conferred by the heritage of the Caesars and the coronation at Reims, and held in reserve for the future.

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  • The truce of Ratisbon (Regensburg) imposed upon Spain completed the work of the peace of Nijmwegen (1684); and thenceforward Louis XIV.s terrified allies avoided his clutches while making ready to fight him.

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  • It is difficult to see how this complication can be avoided, unless the first postulate is abandoned, and the heat-flow due to conduction is assumed to be independent of the thermoelectric phenomena.

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  • Charles's generals avoided pitched battles, and contented themselves with defensive and guerrilla tactics, with the result that in 1380 only Bayonne, Bordeaux, Brest and Calais were still in English hands.

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  • Bismarck in this crisis by deferring to the emperor in appearance avoided the danger, but he knew that he had been deceived, and the cordial understanding was never renewed.

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  • No nursing mare should go to work, if this can possibly be avoided.

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  • Indian pulses are to be avoided on account of the danger of Lathyrus poisoning.

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  • The committee avoided these and selected the site of Lincoln.

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  • She carefully avoided taking any side in party politics, but she was actively interested in phases of Imperial extension which were calculated to improve the condition of the black races, as in Africa, or the education and relief of the poor or suffering in any part of the world.

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  • Moreover, this distance between the object and eye is substantially increased in the compound microscope by the stand; the inconveniences, and in certain circumstances also the dangers, to the eye which may arise, for example by warming the object, are also avoided.

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  • In immersion-systems a very much greater aggregate of rays is used in the representation than is possible in dry-systems. In addition to a considerable increase in brightness the losses due to reflection are avoided; losses which arise in passing to the back surface of the cover-slip and to the front surface of the front lens.

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  • The inconvenience of orthogonal illumination, which certainly gives better results, is avoided in the coaxial apparatus.

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  • In the apochromats the chromatic difference of the spherical aberrations is eliminated, for the spherical aberration is completely avoided for three colours.

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  • The dead motion of a micrometer screw is best avoided by working the screw always from one and the same side.

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  • In an ammonia machine copper and copper alloys must be avoided, but for carbonic acid they are not objectionable.

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  • This naming of portions of plants, however objectionable, is often not to be avoided; for detached organs constantly have to be described long before their relation to other parts is established - which, indeed, may never be accomplished.

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  • His arguments, which were given with much plainness of speech, appear to have convinced the Chinese government, and war was avoided.

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  • It was during his absence that the Amsterdam Rabbis excommunicated Spinoza, a catastrophe which would probably have been avoided had Menasseh - Spinoza's teacher - been on the spot.

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  • As a lecturer, Kant avoided altogether that rigid style in which his books were written.

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  • Courts were held, but any conflict of jurisdiction with Virginia or North Carolina was avoided.

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  • The old sacred name Yahweh is never pronounced; even "God" is avoided for allusive titles like "heaven" or "place."

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  • Westien made use of two Chevalier-Briicke's simple microscopes with their long working distances in order to form an instrument in which the curvature of the image was not entirely avoided.

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  • The beautiful rapids of Doonas (avoided by a canal) are in the neighbourhood, and the surrounding scenery is generally attractive.

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  • I suppose if I had met a woman and loved her enough, I would have given up the ranch, but I knew I would be resentful, so I simply avoided any situation that might end up in romance.

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  • The whole reason he'd avoided her was because of Wynn's warning – pleasure kills – a reminder that Deidre's tumor was connected to her emotions.

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  • By the time they reached the stairs, Elisabeth's face colored beet red and she avoided Sarah and Connor's amused gazes.

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  • She had planned to be married by now and starting a family, but the prospect was looking farther away with each day she and Josh avoided each other.

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  • Her gaze fell first to the vamps Jonny must've sent who made the mistake she'd avoided.

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  • Sometimes it's hard to broach a subject – especially when you've avoided it for a while.

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  • I didn't want to see her beady eyes looking back at me so I avoided the mirror.

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  • Defamatory or otherwise actionable comments should also be avoided.

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  • He advised that opioid analgesics should be avoided in a patient with impaired liver function.

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  • Leaning on the elbow should be avoided as it is likely to cause varus angulation.

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  • Wales also suffered raids, but to judge from the welsh annals, Welsh armies avoided yielding large tracts of land to the newcomers.

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  • Canesten is best avoided in future and it is possible that other imidazole antifungal agents such as Miconazole might produce similar symptoms as well.

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  • The blackthorn, wild fig, trembling aspen, and other ' crossed ' wood are avoided.

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  • Nevertheless, this is not a page about trig point bagging as such arbitrary collection of things should be avoided.

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  • It avoided adventures such as the left proposal to occupy the enterprises in the Ruhr in face of French bayonets.

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  • Although it is usually avoided by stock creeping buttercup is more palatable than the other buttercups and may be grazed.

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  • The last steep descent was avoided by using a chairlift.

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  • He or she will be present throughout your wedding day, so personality clashes should be avoided.

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  • The risk of interstitial condensation in the roof construction is avoided.

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  • It is worth pointing out that virus infected crucifers are not tasty items and they are avoided by most animal predators including humans.

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  • He avoided the deadly dangers of a wrong attitude to wealth.

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  • Hadden has since maintained a diplomatic silence over the mistakes to be avoided from the latest welsh debacle.

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  • This syntax often can be avoided by using a different delimiter; e.g., " Don't " instead of ' Don''t ' .

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  • Visibly dirty recreational water in pools, lakes and rivers especially in the tropics should be avoided.

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  • It brought about a rapid economic, physical, and psychological disintegration of the Germans which might have been avoided.

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  • In a number of patients undergoing breast cancer surgery, an axillary dissection will be avoided with the risk of complications reduced.

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  • He could thus have avoided the driver's suspected heart attack on being rudely disturbed.

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  • By taking a multi-disciplinary approach to post-operative hyponatraemia the adverse effects of this metabolic disturbance could be avoided.

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  • Higher pressure is avoided at it can lead to surgical emphysema.

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  • Although I avoided the episiotomy I did tear from finally pushing him out so fast.

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  • Casualty was airlifted to hospital which avoided a lengthy stretcher evacuation which would have taken an estimated three hours.

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  • The use of medications containing a lactose excipient should be avoided if possible.

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  • Resisted knee extension exercises should be avoided until 6 weeks following surgery.

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  • Contact with local wild badgers should be avoided by the installation of suitable electrified fencing outside the enclosure where appropriate.

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  • Certain essential oils are good but oils to be avoided include evening primrose, rosemary, hyssop, sweet fennel and sage.

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  • On the other hand, he carefully avoided creating territorially based feudal fiefs, then fashionable in most of Europe.

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  • Fish oil supplements made from fish oil supplements made from fish liver should also be avoided.

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  • There will be a need for such forbearance with xenografting as well as with cell therapies, if disasters are to be avoided.

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  • Our spiritual forefathers avoided this expression through the centuries and we, who follow in same path, avoid it today.

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  • I also feel that in order to minimize the risk of iatrogenic femoral shaft fracture, a full trial reduction should be avoided.

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  • This is not to say that such studies should be avoided, a position often assumed by approval committees and other gatekeepers.

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  • I walked out of there and avoided him until i moved away, at the end of 6th grade.

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  • It should be avoided by people with chronic heartburn, severe liver damage, inflammation of the gallbladder, or obstruction of bile ducts.

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  • White coat hypertension can be diminished or avoided by the " hide " display function.

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  • These can mainly be avoided by taking the ibuprofen with food.

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  • If physical contact cannot be avoided then it MUST remain impersonal 6. Whenever possible try to ensure another adult is present.

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  • The ref simply avoided carding players until they fouled in a cynical and at least potentially injurious way.

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  • I avoided intercourse with them in every possible way.

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  • These computationally intractable sums or integrals can be avoided by using approximate Bayesian methods.

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  • At no stage of a human life within society can bad karma be avoided.

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  • Although bladderwrack is sometimes called kelp, that name is not specific to this species and should be avoided.

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  • The '600 ' variant was a horrible kludge that ran MS-DOS and is best avoided.

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  • This play sounds like the work of an amateur group having a lark - something Big Finish have thus far avoided.

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  • My job having terminated, I avoided this anti-climax by wangling a lift on an ammunition limber returning for fresh supplies.

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  • How did Sir Tim Berners-Lee create the world wide web and how has he avoided the public limelight?

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  • Bubble baths and soaps should be avoided as they remove the natural lipids from the surface of the skin and can be an irritant.

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  • What appears minor in isolation, may be the tip of a trend that can be avoided, and a life saved.

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  • Most Anabaptists, however, practiced a virtuous monogamy and avoided all immorality.

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  • They should only be used after discussing any risks with your doctor or pharmacist antihistamine nasal sprays and eye drops should be avoided.

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  • Could the Tories have avoided political oblivion a decade ago?

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  • Dialog and debate between competing perspectives should be encouraged and attempts to define a disciplinary orthodoxy avoided.

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  • Why is reference avoided to the north American peace pipe, as if there were some obscenity attached, although none is discernable?

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  • If using the zest, scrub the skin thoroughly and avoid cutting or grating too deeply - the bitter white pith is best avoided.

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  • According to him, he felt more comfortable urinating in public places, but avoided entering restrooms if others were there.

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  • An attempt to replace the leadership in Malta failed, and for a period further schism was avoided.

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  • For the Humanities in particular, further selectivity is to be avoided.

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  • This was a performance which carefully avoided any sensationalism or attention-grabbing dependence on the big numbers.

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  • Pressure sores should be avoided as they prolong hospital stay, delay rehabilitation and may cause sepsis.

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  • In addition, he suffered psychological sequelae that would have been avoided with prompt re-admission and early control of the post-operative infection.

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  • Early identification is a priority if the debilitating, disabling, life shortening and expensive consequences of severe COPD are to be avoided.

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  • Unintentional battery drain is avoided through use of automatic Phantom power detection and automatic power shut-off on disconnection of the input signal.

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  • Knowing the rather smutty minds of my own students, this exercise may be best avoided.

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  • Glass has highly specular surface characteristics at high glancing angles and polarized luminaires adjacent to extensive glazing should be avoided.

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  • Liam avoided this fate by having to drop out at about 27 miles due to a sudden pain that he suspected was shin splints.

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  • That both choose to remain as Ogres rather than retain their human forms avoided a happy but somewhat staid and expected ending.

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  • What is needed is secure, sustained access on the ground if widespread starvation is to be avoided.

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  • This is an absolute stinker that is best avoided.

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  • Alcohol should be avoided, as steroids can irritate the stomach, and alcohol can compound this action.

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  • Jogging should be avoided as this may prove too strenuous.

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  • Typically suburban open plan, motor vehicle and highway dominated, arrangements should be avoided.

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  • Laying the rope on the grass would have avoided a tangle he said - XX off!

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  • Therefore, where monitoring of plasma levels is not possible, the use of ciprofloxacin should be avoided in patients receiving theophylline.

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  • Side effects may be largely avoided by the indicated careful titration of dosage.

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  • Some tissues may have higher titres earlier than brain tissue eg gut, hence these are best avoided from British sources.

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  • The use of pet names should generally be avoided as they can become meaningless and appear trite with the passing of time.

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  • Because the rubella vaccine contains a live virus, pregnancy should be avoided for up to 3 months after vaccination.

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  • How G6rgei used his authority to surrender is well known; the capitulation was indeed inevitable, but a greater man than Kossuth would not have avoided the last duty of conducting the negotiations so as to get the best terms.

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  • The lower branches often require removal, to ensure the formation of a tall straight trunk, and this operation should be performed before the superfluous shoots get too large, or the timber will be injured; but, as with all trees, unnecessary pruning should be avoided, as every branch removed lessens the vigour of growth.

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  • Hook finds in the fact of the marriage corroboration of Cranmer's statement that he never expected or desired the primacy; and it seems probable enough that, if he had foreseen how soon the primacy was to be forced upon him, he would have avoided a disqualification which it was difficult to conceal and dangerous to disclose.

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  • In the early days of railways, roads were often taken across the line on the level, but such " level " or " grade " crossings are now usually avoided in the case of new lines in populous countries, except when the traffic on both the road and the railway is very light.

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  • It differs from the adder in having the head entirely covered with scales, shields being absent, and in having the snout somewhat turned up. The term "Asp" (á¼â‚¬ÃÆ’πίÏ‚) seems to, have been employed by Greek and Roman writers, and by writers generally down to comparatively recent times, to designate more than one species of serpent; thus the asp, by means of which Cleopatra is said to have ended her life, and so avoided the disgrace of entering Rome a captive, is now generally supposed to have been the cerastes, or horned viper (Cerastes cornutus), of northern Africa and Arabia, a snake about 15 in.

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  • Chills are recognized as predisposing both to primary infection and to relapses, and malnutrition is also believed to increase susceptibility; both should therefore be avoided.

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  • He would not formally abolish the suzerainty, but he was willing not to mention it; and though, in substituting new articles for those of the Pretoria Convention he left the preamble untouched, he avoided anything which could commit the Boer delegates to a formal recognition of that fact.

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  • Hence the repetition of two articles exactly like each other, and, generally, the division of any space into equal parts are instinctively avoided, as nature avoids the production of any two plants, or even any two leaves of the same tree, which in all points shall be exactly alike.

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  • From these and other considerations it is obvious that (I) the electrolyte must be such as will freely dissolve the metal to be refined; (2) the electrolyte must be able to dissolve the major portion of the anode, otherwise the mass of insoluble matter on the outer layer will prevent access of electrolyte to the core, which will thus escape refining; (3) the electrolyte should, if possible, be incapable of dissolving metals more electro-negative than that to be refined; (4) the proportion of soluble electro-positive impurities must not be excessive, or these substances will accumulate too rapidly in the solution and necessitate its frequent purification; (5) the current density must be so adjusted to the strength of the solution and to other conditions that no relatively electro-positive metal is deposited, and that the cathode deposit is physically suitable for subsequent treatment; (6) the current density should be as high as is consistent with the production of a pure and sound deposit, without undue expense of voltage, so that the operation may be rapid and the "turnover" large; (7) the electrolyte should be as good a conductor of electricity as possible, and should not, ordinarily, be altered chemically by exposure to air; and (8) the use of porous partitions should be avoided, as they increase the resistance and usually require frequent renewal.

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  • That the dangers of heresy might be avoided, laymen were forbidden to argue about matters of faith by Pope Alexander IV., an oath "to abjure every heresy and to maintain in its completeness the Catholic faith" was required by the council of Toledo (1129), the reading of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue was not allowed to the laity by Pope Pius IV.

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  • He avoided as yet a forward policy, and having taken Pydna and Potidaea soon after Amphipolis, he made them over to the Olynthian confederation (see Olynthus).

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  • In politics he was a zealous Royalist, asserting that even the unjust and tyrannous violence of princes may not be resisted, although it might be avoided in terms of the instruction, "when they persecute you in one city, flee into another."

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  • Farm-yard manure should also be avoided.

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  • She may have had interviews, with French agents who helped to foment the insurrection; but she was strong and wary enough to avoid Henry II.'s, as she had avoided Northumberland's, toils; for even in case of success she would have been the French king's puppet, placed on the throne, if at all, merely to keep it warm for Henry's prospective daughter-in-law, Mary Stuart.

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  • The only bright pages in the dark chapter of Alexander's popedom are his efforts on behalf of the Turkish War (1499-1502), his activity for the diffusion of Christianity in America, and his judicial awards (May 3-4, 1 493) on the question of the colonial empires of Spain and Portugal, by which he avoided a bloody war.

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  • The advantage of the first arrangement is that the weights on the steelyard are always the same, and inconsistencies of indication are avoided, while in the second arrangement the loose weights are lighter and handier, though they must be very accurate and consistent among themselves, or the error will be considerable, by reason of the great leverage they exert.

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  • Well, what's to be done if it cannot be avoided?

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  • The rawhide face is ideal for use on materials where bruising needs to be avoided.

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  • Comments along the lines of " being called to relieve suffering " etc turn up regularly, and should be avoided.

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  • The scabbling of concrete generates silica dust and should be avoided where possible.

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  • See self-indulgence as an enemy to be avoided and luck will find you.

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  • Ensure the connections are well insulated with heat shrink sleeving as short circuits must be avoided.

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  • Unintentional battery drain is avoided through use of automatic Phantom Power detection and automatic power shut-off on disconnection of the input signal.

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  • Mr Maclean should not have permitted the MLC advertisements to claim that with the stringency of controls even the remotest perceived risk was avoided.

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  • It is better avoided in moderate or severe pre-eclampsia because of its sympathomimetic activity.

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  • Touch-sensitive controls should be avoided, to allow tactual exploration.

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  • Laying the rope on the grass would have avoided a tangle he said - XX off !

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  • For example, gene flow might be avoided by making GM crops sterile, but ' terminator ' technology has gained an ethical stigma.

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  • As the levels mount up, disaster is only avoided by deft and meticulous thruster control.

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  • Massage to the surface of the tibia bone should be avoided as this may increase inflammation Gradual return to running.

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  • Since tritone chords are generally avoided in vocal music, the second chord of khulo is an octave.

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  • We live in a culture where suffering is an unmitigated evil to be avoided at all costs.

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  • In turn, perhaps this week-end 's upsurge of violence might have been avoided.

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  • The enervating heat of the sun can hardly be avoided in the desert.

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  • If we had narrowed our market definition at the start, however, we would have avoided all the wasted time and increased our chances of making the startup a success.

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  • The founder informed everyone of the problematic issues, saw the end coming and avoided worse outcomes.

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  • Foods that need to be avoided include grapes, nuts, popcorn, hotdogs, peanut butter, and hard candy.

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  • Many of these problems can be avoided with basic training.

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  • Gender issues are sometimes avoided when the adoption of a child is by a single parent.

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  • Slips enhance the body shape and also provide some relief from those ugly looking panty lines that cannot be avoided in some dresses that are made of slinky materials.

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  • Understand that there are certain foods that should be avoided when you make your own cat food.

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  • Parents who read the same books the kids read are better able to choose what is appropriate and fun for the kids and what should be avoided.

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  • Most of these fees can be avoided if direct deposit is utilized.

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  • Many fees can be avoided by simply using the card for purchases and not making excessive inquiries over the phone or at an ATM to determine the available balance.

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  • Some fees -such a fee imposed for a late payment- make sense and can be avoided by making payments on time.

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  • Of course, with any divorce there are necessary expenses that may not be avoided.

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  • This does not mean that water usage is something to be avoided, but rather that it's important to utilize this resource wisely, using what is necessary but avoiding waste.

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  • Because of the blood thinning capabilities it should be avoided before surgery.

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  • Some herbal remedies should be avoided in late trimesters while others are safe.

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  • Because it has caused bad side effects in otherwise healthy people, including liver failure, it should be avoided by anyone with a known liver problem.

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  • Unnecessary obstructions, such as moveable kitchen furniture should also be avoided in these areas.

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  • If it is expected that more than one person will be working in the kitchen, overlapping work triangles should be avoided.

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  • This can often be avoided by having your skin tested for an allergic reaction prior to having the procedure.

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  • Foundation or powder shades that don't exactly match your skin tone should also be avoided.

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  • It's known to cause skin irritations and clogged pores, and is best avoided in general if possible.

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  • Dusty and heathery hues, such as gray, purple, and mossy browns should be avoided at all costs.

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  • As a base rule, sparkly lipstick should be avoided for events or situations where you must be taken seriously.

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  • If you've avoided lip gloss in the past because of its lack of staying power, MAC Lipglass is long lasting and can be worn over lipstick.

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  • Such action is considered unprofessional, inappropriate and should be avoided entirely.

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  • Extreme contrasts are to be avoided at all costs during photo shoots, especially when multiple subjects are involved.

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  • Short sleeves and very low necklines should be avoided too, since these will draw attention away from the face.

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  • All of these food choices are high in sodium, however, and should be avoided if you are on a low salt diet.

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  • Baked goods don't have to be avoided entirely, but they should be viewed as an occasional snack.

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  • Since most ski shops will adjust ski bindings for little or even no charge, these problems could have been avoided.

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  • Green Scotch Brite is too abrasive and should therefore be avoided.

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  • However, if you ignore or put off items that started out in quadrant two, they can quickly become urgent, creating emergencies that could easily have been avoided.

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  • Many of the items that fall into quadrant three are really things that can be put off or avoided altogether, though we often fool ourselves into thinking that they are important simply because they seem to have a sense of urgency.

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  • Equally important themes that are best avoided; usually those that are inflammatory or insensitive to those in the audience.

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  • Suicide among adolescents is not a topic that should be avoided.

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  • There are other foods like sprouted kidney beans that should be avoided.

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  • The fact is that protein deficiency is rare and easily avoided by eating protein-rich plant foods such as nuts, seeds, beans and grains.

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  • A-lines are best for plus size beach wedding dresses, while full skirts should be avoided.

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  • A wedding salon that hesitates regarding any of their purchase or pricing policies is waving a red flag and should be avoided.

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  • Although it has become more acceptable to include registry cards in showers hosted by non-family members, hosting a shower where guests are expected to give cash or that centers on money should be avoided.

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  • How often is the registry updated so duplicate gifts can be avoided?

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  • Just as crucial as choosing the right colors for a September wedding is knowing what colors are best avoided at this time of year.

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  • According to Judith Matz and Ellen Frankel, authors of The Diet Survivor's Handbook, dieting in any form is something to be avoided.

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  • Since giving reassurance interferes with someone learning to do that for themselves, it can become an endless loop which is best avoided.

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  • By pleading guilty to felony assault, Chris Brown avoided a sentence that could have had him in jail for up to four and a half years.

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  • She avoided further legal troubles and keeps away from the media, choosing instead to live her life privately.

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  • Sade is a very private person and has avoided the celebrity scandals that have plagued other popular singers.

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  • Owners should be aware that these devices are not suitable for use on every dog, and should be avoided if a pet has fear/abuse issues.

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  • These are things your dog really doesn't need in his diet, so they're best avoided.

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  • Corn, soy and wheat are also avoided because they are potential allergens for many dogs.

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  • Corn, soy and wheat, which often produce allergic reactions in dogs, are avoided.

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  • Remember that certain foods are difficult for a dog to digest or are even toxic, so should be avoided.

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  • Cow's milk should be avoided if it irritates your dog's stomach because some dogs are lactose intolerant.

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  • A little ventilation is necessary to keep them from getting mouldy; but a hot, dry atmosphere must also be avoided, as the tubers might shrivel in it.

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  • All danger can be avoided by lifting, though some hold that this is injurious.

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  • Ceramic tile stands up better to water than hardwood flooring, therefore it can be installed in areas where hardwood is usually avoided, such as mudrooms, kitchens, and bathrooms.

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  • This can all be avoided by following a proper business attire dress code description.

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  • However, that doesn't mean that there aren't certain clothes that should generally be avoided, whether for their cut, lack of flattering fit or simple fact that they doesn't suit a particular age group.

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  • Are there any styles that should be avoided?

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  • A very large percentage of women do not wear the proper size to begin with, resulting in discomfort, pinching, irritation of the skin and more problems that can easily be avoided.

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  • On the other hand, dresses that overemphasize your curviest areas are best avoided, too.

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  • Large patterns should be avoided, but small-scale prints can flatter petite size 16 figures nicely.

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  • If this antidote is administered within eight hours of ingesting a large amount of acetaminophen, severe liver damage can usually be avoided.

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  • Car accidents can be avoided in many cases if the driver is paying attention and following all laws and rules.

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  • Patients and their health care providers should work together to make the diagnosis because there are good treatments to manage this condition, and some of the complications may be avoided.

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  • Many problems with CPAP involve troubles with the mask and some of the problems can be avoided with a few simple adjustments or by replacing the mask.

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  • If you would like to learn how to play the sport of squash, but you've avoided it because you're worried about breaking your prescription glasses, you'll be happy to learn that prescription squash goggles are available.

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  • Waiting in lines at the gate to purchase tickets is a chore that can be avoided, and guests can instead focus on enjoying their getaway rather than struggling with organizing it along the way.

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  • In many cases, accidents can be avoided or minimized by knowing what can go wrong with an otherwise safe and fun attraction.

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  • Once upon a time, when I wanted a supple and food-friendly Cabernet Sauvignon that was a good value, I avoided California and went south to grab a good Cab from Chile.

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  • Since rot and mildew can occur in wine cellars, untreated woods should be avoided.

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  • True, this is more a nuisance than a catastrophe but it can be avoided if glasses are not stored in a cabinet.

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  • Even though you may have heard in the past that carbs are evil and should be avoided at all costs, carbohydrates are actually a very necessary part to any healthy diet because they are a major source of your body's energy.

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  • Splenectomy is usually avoided in children younger than five years because of the increased risk of a severe postoperative infection.

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  • All medications for ITP are given either orally or intravenously; intramuscular injection is avoided because of the possibility of causing bleeding into the skin.

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  • For example, narcotic analgesics should usually be avoided in patients with a history of substance abuse but may be fully appropriate in patients with cancer pain.

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  • Known environmental causes can be avoided, however.

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  • Often lactose intolerance is a natural occurrence that cannot be avoided.

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  • Substances such as caffeine and alcohol should be avoided if tremor is present.

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  • Physicians and medical personnel can assure parents that careful observation is involved in testing procedures and that allergens to which the child may have had severe reactions will be avoided.

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  • Exposure to infected people should be avoided, and a family physician should be notified if the child develops an extremely sore throat or pain, redness, swelling, or drainage at the site of a wound or break in the skin.

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  • Patients usually respond favorably within a few weeks and can make a complete recovery if fructose-containing foods are avoided.

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  • The most severe adverse effects can be avoided by using nose drops and nasal sprays in place of tablets or capsules.

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  • Cough medicines should usually be avoided.

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  • Foods that are known to trigger rashes in persons should be avoided.

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  • Antidepressants should be avoided by women who want to become pregnant.

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  • Whole cow's milk-not cow's milk formula-should be avoided during the first year.

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  • Sharp-edged foods such as peanuts, tacos, and potato chips should be avoided.

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  • Citrus juices and spicy or salty foods should be avoided.

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  • If exposure cannot be avoided, they should use a UVAUVB sunblock with an SPF rating at least 30.

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  • Although no foods cause hyperhidrosis, certain foods and food ingredients can stimulate sweating and should be avoided.

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  • Consuming foods with strong odors, such as those containing garlic and onions, should be avoided because it can cause a person's sweat to smell stronger.

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  • Drinks with caffeine should be avoided because of caffeine's diuretic effects (i.e. causes water to be lost through urine).

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  • Sweets, especially if sweetened with refined sugars, should be reduced or avoided altogether.

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  • If the child loses feelings in various body parts, injuries can be avoided by testing bathwater to prevent burns, inspecting the body visually for injuries, and using protective shoes and helmets.

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  • Salt should not be added to foods while cooking; highly processed foods, which are usually high in sodium should be avoided.

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  • Processed (packaged foods) and refined foods (white flour products, white rice) and refined sugars (white sugar, brown sugar, molasses, and products made with them) should be avoided in all diets.

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  • Many vegetable oils are hydrogenated or extracted at high temperatures and are best avoided.

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  • Although unnecessary exposure to radiation should be avoided, the low levels of radiation one is exposed to during an x ray does not cause harm with a few exceptions.

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  • Although unnecessary x rays should be avoided, in most cases, the benefits greatly outweigh the potentially small increased risk of exposure.

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  • Ginseng (Panax ginseng) should also be avoided because it interferes with the pain-relieving qualities of opioid medications.

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  • Hair is more fragile when it is wet, so vigorous towel drying and rough combing and brushing should be avoided.

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  • Whole foods, including grains, beans, fresh fruits and vegetables, and high quality fats, should be emphasized in the diet, while processed foods should be avoided.

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  • Post surgical complications are common but may often be avoided.

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  • Soaps are often irritating to the skin and can make an itch worse; they should be avoided or used only when necessary.

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  • The problem can by aggravated when playmates tease or when social activities such as sleep-away camp are avoided for fear of teasing.

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  • Direct and indirect criticism of a child's drawings should be avoided.

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  • Any strenuous activity, athletic endeavors, or heavy lifting should be avoided until the symptoms completely subside, since excessive activity may cause the spleen to rupture.

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  • However, recurrences can be avoided or minimized by maintaining a healthy lifestyle by getting plenty of sleep, eating a balanced diet, participating in regular exercise, and minimizing stress.

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  • Diluted juice should be avoided because juice can worsen diarrhea.

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  • Drinks with caffeine should be avoided because of caffeine's diuretic effects (i.e., causes water to be lost through urine).

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  • Some experts believe that tetracyclines should be avoided in children younger than ten.

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  • The common interaction between tetracyclines and minerals can be avoided by taking tetracycline on an empty stomach, one hour before or two hours after meals, with water.

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