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In the last eight years, however, a wide consensus has been reached among the vast majority of Slovenian political parties to jointly work in the improvement of the country's diplomatic infrastructure and to avoid politicizing the foreign relations by turning them into an issue of internal political debates.
For these reasons, those seeking to avoid association with the left-right political debates often seek to label their work with phrases that do not include the word " social ".
He emphasized the need to avoid general theoretical debates and instead focus on understanding specific problems.
After a series of televised debates throughout September, Hollande topped the ballot in the first round held on 9 October with 39 % of the vote, not gaining the 50 % required to avoid a second ballot, which he would contest against Martine Aubry, who had come second with 30 % of the vote.
Use of this ' bounty ' system is not standardized among MMORPGs, and there are debates raging about how to ' police ' the system to avoid abuse.
In ideologically-driven debates, a group may assert exceptionalism, with or without the term, in order to exaggerate the appearance of difference, perhaps to create an atmosphere permissive of a wider latitude of action, and to avoid recognition of similarities that would reduce perceived justifications.
Crick and his collaborator Christof Koch have sought to avoid philosophical debates that are associated with the study of consciousness, by emphasizing the search for " correlation " and not " causation ".
Spate's more humanistic tendencies made him uncomfortable with these trends and in 1967 he became the director of the Australian National University's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies ( RSPAS ), a more administrative position which allowed him to avoid entanglement in disciplinary debates.
I would urge the community to avoid any such debates.
Once free he regrets his promise and debates with Ralpho how to avoid his fate with Ralpho suggesting that oath breaking is next to saintliness:
The Institute was founded to fulfill threefold objectives: to conduct research for thorough understanding of Arabic, Persian and Turkish cultures, to advise decision-makers, media-actors and businessmen interested in Middle-East issues, to disseminate knowledge on current topics in on-going public debates to avoid misunderstandings in intercultural dialogue.

avoid and about
One legacy not drawn from the Group was anonymity, which came about due to AA wishing to avoid the publicity-seeking practices of the Oxford Group and to not promote, Wilson said, " erratic public characters who through broken anonymity might get drunk and destroy confidence in us.
The resolution has to be equal to or better than the half width of an atomic absorption line ( about 2 pm ) in order to avoid losses of sensitivity and linearity of the calibration graph.
Because a black hole eventually achieves a stable state with only three parameters, there is no way to avoid losing information about the initial conditions: the gravitational and electric fields of a black hole give very little information about what went in.
Positive consequentialism demands that we bring about good states of affairs, whereas negative consequentialism may only require that we avoid bad ones.
Appendix II, about 21, 000 species, are species that are not necessarily threatened with extinction, but may become so unless trade in specimens of such species is subject to strict regulation in order to avoid utilization incompatible with the survival of the species in the wild.
" 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.
Although patients are encouraged to wash their hands, avoid sick people, and take other infection-reducing steps, about 85 % of infections are due to naturally occurring microorganisms in the patient's own gastrointestinal tract ( including oral cavity ) and skin.
In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.
Epicurus participated in the activities of traditional Greek religion, but taught that one should avoid holding false opinions about the gods.
They were a Huguenot ( French Protestant ) family who fled to New York about 1687 to avoid the religious persecutions of King Louis XIV.
To avoid clashing with other teams, Essendon adopted a red sash in 1875, and is recorded in magazines of the day as wearing Blue with Red sash up until about 1889.
Upset about Enki's reputation, Uttu consults Ninhursag, who, upset at the promiscuous wayward nature of her spouse, advises Uttu to avoid the riverbanks, the places likely to be affected by flooding, the home of Enki.
The Free Software Foundation advises people to " avoid using terms like ' give away ' or ' for free ,' because those terms imply that the issue is about price, not freedom.
Therefore, it seems important to make the rules and focus of a discussion forum public to avoid misconceptions about its accepted use.
Investigators doing in vitro work must be careful to avoid over-interpretation of their results, which can sometimes lead to erroneous conclusions about organismal and systems biology.
When they are both large, for instance more than 2000 bits long, randomly chosen, and about the same size ( but not too close, e. g. to avoid efficient factorization by Fermat's factorization method ), even the fastest prime factorization algorithms on the fastest computers can take enough time to make the search impractical ; that is, as the number of digits of the primes being factored increases, the number of operations required to perform the factorization on any computer increases drastically.
While the Emperor received detailed reports from Sugiyama and Nagano about the operations in Southeast Asia and the attack of Pearl Harbor, Prime Minister Konoe made one last desperate attempt to avoid war.
In the traditional monolithic operating systems the authors had direct experience with which parts of the kernel called which others, allowing them to fine tune their pager to avoid paging out code that was about to be used.
St. Augustine wrote about periodic abstinence to avoid pregnancy in the year 388 ( the Manichaeans attempted to use this method to remain childfree, and Augustine condemned their use of periodic abstinence ).
The periods of all terms larger than 0. 0001 ″ ( about as accurately as one can measure ) lie between 5. 5 and 6798 days ; for some reason they seem to avoid the range from 34. 8 to 91 days, so it is customary to split the nutation into long-period and short-period terms.
Hence, some scholars also speak about " Caithness Norn ", but others avoid this.
Lucretia then told her relatives about the attack, and subsequently committed suicide to avoid the dishonour of the episode.
It is customary to avoid talk about money or business matters on Shabbat.

avoid and possibility
However, Ian Hacking noted that traditional Dutch book arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.
To avoid the possibility of plebeians obtaining control of the census, the patricians removed the right to take the census from the consuls and tribunes, and appointed for this duty two magistrates, called censores ( censors ), elected exclusively from the patricians in Rome.
To avoid the possibility of local usurpations, to facilitate a more efficient collection of taxes and supplies, and to ease the enforcement of the law, Diocletian doubled the number of provinces from fifty to almost one hundred.
Northwest Orient's Seattle operations manager, Al Lee, approached the aircraft in street clothes ( to avoid the possibility that Cooper might mistake his airline uniform for that of a police officer ) and delivered the cash-filled knapsack and parachutes to Mucklow via the aft stairs.
Another common house rule is that the bottom card of the deck is never given as a replacement, to avoid the possibility of someone who might have seen it during the deal using that information.
A " mixed " control system such as the latter is not desirable and modern FBW aircraft normally avoid it by having more independent FBW channels, thereby reducing the possibility of overall failure to minuscule levels that are acceptable to the independent regulatory and safety authority responsible for aircraft design, testing and certification before operational service.
He also argued that the current framework is moral, both because proving mamzer status sufficiently beyond all doubt is already so difficult that it is rare, and because the mere existence and possibility of mamzerut status, even if rarely enforced, creates an important incentive for divorcing parties to obtain a get ( Jewish religious divorce ) to avoid the sin of adultery.
Not entering a business to avoid the risk of loss also avoids the possibility of earning profits.
A pipe should be allowed to cool before removing the stem to avoid the possibility of warping it.
Chevron said that one way to keep enjoying what they were doing was to avoid making a new album, although he did say that there still is a possibility in the future for new music, but certainly not in the near future.
Fiber Bragg grating temperature sensors are used within nuclear power facilities to monitor reactor core temperatures and avoid the possibility of nuclear meltdowns.
He said that the test would " allow us to avoid the possibility of a brain-dead candidate ".
To avoid the possibility of people stepping on each other's toes, the server only accepts changes made to the most recent version of a file.
Condition number six is required to avoid cooperation breakdown through backwards induction — a possibility suggested by game theoretical models.
In his Memoirs, Sherman noted political pressures in 1864 – 1865 to encourage the escape of slaves, in part to avoid the possibility that "' able-bodied slaves will be called into the military service of the rebels.
Care must therefore be taken to avoid them unless they are compensated by another valuable asset, such as the possibility to develop an attack.
Ian Hacking noted that traditional " Dutch book " arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.
This flag is based on the Coat of arms of Luxembourg and is used as the ensign to avoid the possibility of Luxembourg's ensign being confused for that of the Netherlands.
Most dramatically, the Galileo space probe was deliberately destroyed at the end of its mission by crashing it into Jupiter, to avoid the possibility of contaminating the Jovian moon Europa with bacteria from Earth.
( This was to avoid, as one possibility, Britain's expulsion from the Commonwealth.
While many myths indicate Zeus and Leda to be the parents of Helen of Troy, the author of the compilation of myth called Bibliotheke notes the possibility of Nemesis being the mother of Helen ; Nemesis, to avoid Zeus, turns into a goose, but he turns into a swan and mates with her.
To avoid the possibility of the aether wind being blocked by solid walls, his mountaintop observations used a special shed with thin walls, mainly of canvas.
Salem officially became a city on December 31, 1967, to avoid the possibility of annexation into the city of Roanoke.
Beginning with the capture of an agent named Owens, codenamed Snow, MI5 began to offer enemy agents the chance to avoid prosecution ( and thus the possibility of the death penalty ) if they would work as British double-agents.

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