Such an outcome might permit the parties to avoid a $65 million breakup fee.

Both parties, he stressed, "should avoid creating new issues that can inflame the situation."

But the party has avoided that, fearing a public backlash.

The prime minister and the ruling party cannot avoid ethical questions.

Except when general nationalist objectives were concerned the new party avoided to define the nature of its socialism.

Meanwhile, both parties avoid important public policy changes that would expand the limitations on women's (and men's) choices.

Both parties have avoided a Federal spending ceiling and they are pumping additional millions into election efforts.

It's the way the parties avoid committing themselves to individual parts of the agreement.

Therefore, established parties and politicians usually avoid to call themselves "right-wingers".

This was a taboo for the fact that both parties "avoided taking a stand on prohibition issues" at the time.