The college and the convention wanted to avoid the kind of contention becoming common in neighboring states.

The strategy was aimed at avoiding the kind of prolonged attention that might give Congress time to head it off.

Most of the time we're able to avoid the kind of thing that happened this morning.

We're trying to avoid the same kind of publicity here.

"I think most young, healthy, single Americans would be willing to do that to avoid the kind of horror stories we've heard today," he said.

This one task will avoid the kind of hassle described here.

Besides which, to avoid the wrong kind of attention, it would have to be small, anyway.

"To avoid exactly the kind of situation you're in," said Banks.

"We certainly hope we can avoid the kind of crisis we've had in the past," a senior Administration official said.

So we built a program to avoid the kind of problems that led to their demise.