That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

It would challenge sharply not the cult of the motor car itself but some of its ancillary beliefs and practices -- for instance, the doctrine that the fulfillment of life consists in proceeding from hither to yon, not for any advantage to be gained by arrival but merely to avoid the cardinal sin of stasis, or, as it is generally termed, staying put.

If you can possibly avoid it, you don't hand out any extra chances.

" by Howard Hallis ) or " scholar " replacing Arab to avoid any racist overtones.

The S-box is also chosen to avoid any fixed points ( and so is a derangement ), and also any opposite fixed points.

Around this time, to avoid any scandals Tiberius divorced Julia and left Rome to live on the Greek island of Rhodes.

The relief was immediately hidden by tarpaulins to conceal the accident and avoid any undesired ominous interpretations.

Nuclear strike aircraft were generally finished in bare metal or anti-flash white to avoid any flash damage.

At the start of a game, play is more or less random, the only strategy is to avoid adding the third side to any box.

An alternative is to avoid using any type of Ace asking and use the cue bid alternative.

" Though advised regularly of Beaux ’ s progress abroad and to " not be worried about any indiscretions of ours ", her Aunt Eliza repeatedly reminded her niece to avoid the temptations of Paris, " Remember you are first of all a Christian – then a woman and last of all an Artist.

Followers of Subh-i-Azal, Bahá ' u ' lláh's half-brother who tried to poison him, engaged in active opposition to Bahá ' ís, and Shoghi Effendi did inform Bahá ' ís that they should avoid contact with his descendants, writing that " No intelligent and loyal Baha ' i would associate with a descendant of Azal, if he traced the slightest breath of criticism of our Faith, in any aspect, from that person.

This eventually prompted Dianetics advocates to disclaim any medicinal benefits in order to avoid regulation.

Following the election of George W. Bush in 2000, observers expected him to avoid any changes to DADT, since his nominee for Secretary of State Colin Powell had participated in its creation.

If only layer C changes, we should find a way to avoid re-blending all of the layers when computing F. Without any special considerations, four full-image blends would need to occur.

Furthermore, demand in the developing world for improved educational access is not as high as one would expect as governments avoid the recurrent costs involved and there is economic pressure on those parents who prefer their children making money in the short term over any long-term benefits of education.

Lancaster's supporters responded that any schoolchild could avoid cheats, given the opportunity, and that the government was not paying for the education, and thus deserved no say in their composition.

Carbon monoxide is highly toxic, and can cause carbon monoxide poisoning, so it is important to avoid any build-up of the gas in a confined space.

One of Eleanor's rumoured lovers had been Henry's own father, Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou, who had advised his son to avoid any involvement with her.

Thus the aim developed, to provide a new time scale for astronomical and scientific purposes, to avoid the unpredictable irregularities of the mean solar time scale, and to replace for these purposes Universal Time ( UT ) and any other time scale based on the rotation of the Earth around its axis, such as sidereal time.

Elizabeth on the other hand, wanted him " to avoid at all costs any decisive action with the enemy ".

Erasmus preferred to live the life of an independent scholar and made a conscious effort to avoid any actions or formal ties that might inhibit his freedom of intellect and literary expression.

He wished to publish under a different name in order to avoid any embarrassment to his family over his time as a " tramp ".

Since a gentleman must, if possible, avoid sullying them by work, his hands, as importantly as his accent, become the index of social status.

The nature of the individual nonempty sets in the collection may make it possible to avoid the axiom of choice even for certain infinite collections.

Some scholars favor the unhyphenated form antisemitism to avoid possible confusion involving whether the term refers specifically to Jews, or to Semitic-language speakers as a whole.

" The Court allowed the guilty plea only with a simultaneous protestation of innocence as there was enough evidence to show that the prosecution had a strong case for a conviction, and the defendant was entering such a plea to avoid this possible sentencing.

Defendants usually enter an Alford guilty plea if they want to avoid a possible worse sentence were they to lose the case against them at trial.

iii. 74a ), is in the main pure Hebrew, and even includes Hebrew translations of Greek proper names, to avoid the danger of possible exposure should the letter have fallen into the hands of enemies and informers ( compare Eruvin 53b ).

It was decided, during development, that the use of the services therein would be decided on by each given congregation, so as to avoid as much conflict as possible with traditionalists.

The goal is to move the patient as much as possible to try to avoid bedsores, atelectasis and pneumonia.

Another possible explanation for the origins of obligatory celibacy revolves around more practical reason, " the need to avoid claims on church property by priests ' offspring ".

However, Joan's paternity was suspect due to her mother's adultery ; the French magnates adopted Salic Law to avoid the succession of a possible bastard.

In cases where this is infeasible, it may be possible to avoid an accident by placing windows in the door.

Hexes on the main island for which there are no number tokens do not produce resources, but number tokens are moved in such a way so as to avoid rendering a city unproductive ; furthermore, whenever possible number tokens must be reassigned from hexes bordering a player's own settlements and cities, so as to prevent harming another player's economy without harming a player's own economy at the same time.

It is possible to object to this interpretation of general relativity on the grounds that light rays might be improper physical models of Euclid's lines, or that relativity could be rephrased so as to avoid the geometrical interpretations.

It is possible that bipedalism was favored because it freed up the hands for reaching and carrying food, saved energy during locomotion, enabled long distance running and hunting, or helped avoid hyperthermia by reducing the surface area exposed to direct sun.

In his character, he prefers persuasion to conflict, which he seeks to avoid if possible.

Desperate to avoid a possible murder in college, Harriet asks her old friend Wimsey to investigate.

Some authors scrupulously avoid such technology as faster-than-light travel, while others accept such notions ( sometimes referred to as " enabling devices ", since they allow the story to take place ) but focus on realistically depicting the worlds that such a technology might make possible.

This is done to avoid catastrophic accidents caused by lack of knowledge / skill as much as possible, and also allows the government to maintain information on who reloads their own cartridges.

Prescription hypnotics ( Benzodiazepines and Nonbenzodiazepines included ) should therefore be taken for the shortest duration of time with the least frequency possible, so as to avoid tolerance, drug dependence, and the adverse effects of long term use.

Hergé chose a subject that was as fantastic as possible rather than issues related to the crisis of the times to avoid trouble with the censors.

It may also cover ways to deal with physical and verbal methods to avoid violence whenever possible.

Desperate to avoid possible war with France, Jefferson sent James Monroe to Paris in 1802 to negotiate a settlement, with instructions to go to London to negotiate an alliance if the talks in Paris failed.

In order to avoid possible counterfeiting, a different design was used.

Another technique used to avoid bias is disclosure of affiliations that may be considered a possible conflict of interest.