The Giants' president, John Mara, typically affable and approachable, increasingly avoided reporters as the team's season deteriorated.

Always a private person at the best of times, Hughes increasingly avoided public life.

There were reports that prominent businessmen were increasingly avoiding inviting Mr. Waldheim to formal events or openings.

Consumers are increasingly avoiding products that contain trans fats, and governments have begun to ban trans fats in food products.

From 1973 onwards Bubbles increasingly avoided credits for his artwork, typically working anonymously or occasionally adopting alternative pseudonyms.

Iranians themselves increasingly avoided the parks, hoping to avoid being stereotyped and lumped together with the so-called "bad Iranians" who assembled there regularly.

From 1871, he increasingly avoided encounters with strangers.

The majority of clerics in Iran increasingly avoid talking about politics, said Mostafa Izadi, a journalist and researcher.

But now these sites and dozens of smaller ones have something those marketers want: the attention of tens of millions of young people who increasingly avoid television commercials.

So neither television nor the parties moved closer to the electorate on unemployment: they moved away from the electorate, increasingly avoiding an issue the public wanted to discuss.