Word: avoidable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...army, has consistently abused all public powers in the community, and violated the constitutional laws of the empire." The Shah explained his own long residence in Europe, which has been attributed to a taste for European "high life," by saying: "I have thought it necessary, in order to avoid all international agitation, which would have caused my country to suffer, to leave my country and by this sacrifice show how fully I disapprove of the illegal arbitrary acts of Reza Khan...
...orchestras will provide continuous music in both the living room and the Reading Room. Dancing will be from 10 o'clock to 3 o'clock, and the attendance has been limited in order to avoid crowding. With the same purpose in view, the avoiding of all congestion, the management has announced that the same system devised for the Dartmouth dance will be again used. Both the upstairs and downstairs Dining Rooms will be used, and no crowding within any one part of the building is anticipated...
...Dean Whitney had for two long weeks, day and night, been submitted to the none too tender mercies of those pertinacious individuals who swarm around the Freshman dormitories with pressing contracts from 'The Varmint' and "The Varlet,' he would either give the innocent victims some advice on how to avoid them, or, realizing the futility of doing this, he should adopt some plan whereby our suffering, if not eliminated, would be shortened...
...spite of our particular care to avoid misunderstanding, we have received occasional communications protesting against our desire to "abolish chapel", or accusing us of being destructive critics without a constructive element. Of course it is compulsion and not chapel that we, and now virtually all of Yale College and the Freshman Year, are attacking, and the very attack is a constructive one. It is our belief, stated infinite numbers of times, that what runs our religious services is the element of compulsion. Unless you call an operation for appendicitis a destructive operation you cannot call this newly expressed and long...
...reason I am asking you to change the title of my talk is that I try to avoid having the public get the impression that the Coast Guard is concerned with rum-running operations alone...