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avoid and omitting
It is fairly common practice to omit the drive number when communicating with a single drive floppy unit, as 0: is the default in such units, but since omitting the number can trigger a few obscure bugs in the DOS it is not a recommended practice ( a colon alone is equivalent to 0: and is enough to avoid those bugs ).
He missed two Lancashire matches in which Phillips was an umpire, wishing to avoid a confrontation, but Lancashire were criticised by the public for omitting Mold from these matches.

avoid and every
Several photographs and charts of galaxies help the non-scientist keep up with the discussion, and the smooth language indicates the contributors were determined to avoid the jargon that seems to work its way into almost every field.
A few weeks before the war, he went so far as to pen a letter to every governor asking for their support in ratifying the Corwin Amendment as a means to avoid secession.
He rejected the very idea that every explanation of the meaning of a term needed itself to be explained: " As though an explanation hung in the air unless supported by another one ", claiming instead that explanation of a term is only needed when we need to avoid misunderstanding.
Similar counsel is repeated in the first chapter of the Epistle of Titus ; however, the redactor of 1 Corinthians ( chapter 7, verse 2 ) writes, " Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
This kind of performance for variable-length keys can be achieved by grouping all of the keys that have the same length together and separately performing an LSD radix sort on each group of keys for each length, from shortest to longest, in order to avoid processing the whole list of keys on every sorting pass.
Although z / OS customers vary in their maintenance practices, IBM encourages every z / OS customer to adopt a reasonable preventive maintenance strategy, to avoid known problems before they might occur.
In order to avoid having to create platform-specific Window subclasses for every possible platform, an interface will be used.
To add to the farce, the NATO Contact Group countries were desperate to avoid having to make good on their threat of force — Greece and Italy were strongly opposed to the whole idea, and there was vigorous opposition to military action in every NATO country.
They leave just in time to avoid the arrival of Sir Despard, who muses that although he must commit a heinous crime every day, for the rest of the day, he does good works.
To avoid needing unique driver software for every device made, special Common Flash Memory Interface ( CFI ) commands allow the device to identify itself and its critical operating parameters.
In Norway, for example, the parliament passed a family name act in 1923, citing the rising population and the need to avoid the confusion of new last names in every generation.
Sports books are generally permitted to state " ties win " or " ties lose " to avoid the necessity of refunding every bet.
This awakens the last of the statues, a witch named Jadis, who, to avoid defeat in battle, had deliberately killed every living thing in Charn by speaking a " Deplorable Word.
In computer networks it has become a common practice for every person to also have one or more nicknames for the purposes of anonymity, to avoid ambiguity or simply because the natural name or technical address would be too long to type or take too much space on the screen.
Middleware can help software developers avoid having to write application programming interfaces ( API ) for every control program, by serving as an independent programming interface for their applications.
To avoid the calendar creep of the latter, a reform of the ancient Egyptian calendar was introduced at the time of Ptolemy III ( Decree of Canopus, in 238 BC ) which consisted of the intercalation of a sixth epagomenal day every fourth year.
In the first book to include SPECTRE, " Thunderball ", it is stated that the numbers of each member changes periodically ( it " advances round a rota by two digits at midnight on the first of every month ") to avoid detection and Blofeld is in fact number 2.
In May 1972, the Sunshine Mine of Kellogg was the site of one of the worst U. S. mining accidents, resulting in the deaths of 91 miners ; as a result, every miner in the U. S. now carries a " self-rescuer " ( a breathing apparatus made with hopcalite and much simpler than a SCBA ), which gives the miner a chance to avoid death due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
Harpo is perplexed when he sees what he thinks is his reflection, forcing Lucy to mimic his every move to avoid detection.
To avoid these problems, every TIFF reader was required to read Baseline TIFF.
For example, they are obliged to make every effort to avoid damaging people and property not involved in combat, but they are not guilty of a war crime if a bomb mistakenly hits a residential area.
In this resolution the Security Council wrote: Welcomes the proposal that a meeting of experts be convened for the purpose of devising a system of controls to facilitate the implementation of the measures contained in Resolution 1173 ( 1998 ), including arrangements that would allow for increased transparency and accountability in the control of diamonds from their point of origin to the bourses, emphasizes that it is important that, in devising such controls, every effort be made to avoid inflicting collateral damage on the legitimate diamond trade, and welcomes the intention of the Republic of South Africa to host a relevant conference this year
After having used every excuse to avoid pregnancy, Elisabeth later decided that she wanted a fourth child.
Though the present aspect of affairs is menacing in a high degree, I can by no means arrive at the conclusion that war with the Zulus should be unavoidable, and I am confident that you, in concert with Sir H. Bulwer, will use every effort to overcome the existing difficulties by judgment and forbearance, and to avoid an evil so much to be deprecated as a Zulu war.

avoid and Saturday
Coppola and North had to tone down Patton's actual language to avoid an R rating ; in the opening monologue, the word " fornicating " replaced " fucking " when criticizing the The Saturday Evening Post.
The regular season started one week earlier than usual in order to avoid having playoff games on Christmas Day, which fell on a Saturday in 1976.
He appeared in a 1956 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents entitled Wet Saturday in which he portrayed Mr. Princey, an aristocratic gentleman who tries to cover up a murder to avoid public scandal.
" appeared with the word " One " fading in beneath ) to avoid confusion with the new episodes still airing on Saturday nights on NBC and continued to be called that when the TV movies aired as well.
Hall diversified his roles to avoid becoming typecast as his geek persona, joining the cast of Saturday Night Live ( 1985 – 1986 ) and starring in films such as Out of Bounds ( 1986 ), Johnny Be Good ( 1988 ), Edward Scissorhands ( 1990 ) and Six Degrees of Separation ( 1993 ).
Odenkirk and Cross tried to avoid using recurring characters a la Saturday Night Live, but a select few characters still appeared on the show more than once throughout its run.
To avoid a conflict with Jewish Sabbath observance, both Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha ' atzma ' ut are observed one or two days earlier ( the 3rd and 4th, or the 2nd and 3rd, of Iyar ) when the 5th of Iyar falls on a Friday or Saturday, the Shabbat.
( In 2010, qualifying was held on Saturday to avoid a conflict with Super Bowl XLIV ) Prior to that it was held the Saturday before ( except 1992 ), and prior to the 1980s, the Wednesday before.
In 1978 the FA moved the final of the Trophy to the Saturday immediately following the FA Cup Final, so as to give it a longer build-up and avoid conflict with club's league programmes, which had previously reduced the competition's prestige.
Pat O ' Connor had also been a brief national celebrity was he was chosen as a representative of rural Ireland to guest present an edition of the ' Saturday Live ' chat show on RTÉ TV in 1987, however his RTÉ appearance meant he had to resign his involvement in the pirate NCCR to avoid controversy beforehand, and did not appear on NCCR again until the closedown night.
For 2005, six songs dropped to five, and the show was moved to an early Saturday evening slot on 5 March, to avoid a clash with Comic Relief Does Fame Academy and Natasha Kaplinsky replaced Gaby Roslin as co-host with Sir Terry Wogan.
Hurricanes forced the rescheduling of two Miami Dolphins home games: the game against the Tennessee Titans was moved up one day to Saturday, September 11 to avoid oncoming Hurricane Ivan, while the game versus the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, September 26 was moved back 7½ hours to miss the eye of Hurricane Jeanne.

avoid and General
In order to avoid accountability, King Alfonso XIII decided to support the dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, ending the period of constitutional monarchy in Spain.
In 1951, in Taiwan, the Chinese Muslim Kuomintang General Bai Chongxi made a speech broadcast on radio to the entire Muslim world calling for a war against Russia, claiming that the " imperialist ogre " leader Stalin was engineering World War III, and Bai also called upon Muslims to avoid the Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru, accusing him of being blind to Soviet imperialism.
On March 1, Davis appointed General P. G. T. Beauregard to command all Confederate troops in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, where state officials prepared to take possession of Fort Sumter ; Beauregard was to prepare his forces but avoid an attack on the fort.
During the 1938 crisis over Czechoslovakia that culminated in the Munich Agreement, Canaris was together with the army chief of staff, General Ludwig Beck and the Foreign Office ’ s state secretary Ernst von Weizsäcker, a leader of the " anti-war " group in the German government, which was determined to avoid a war in 1938 that it felt Germany would lose.
The legal justification for the policy was that there was an obligation ( based on the constitution and the General Treaty, to strive for German re-unification and therefore to avoid or prevent recognition of East Germany and thus the division of Germany.
General Alexander von Falkenhausen, leader of Chiang's second team of German military advisors, indicated that he supported Li's proposal to abandon Nanking and urged Chiang to avoid sacrificing his troops and materiel uselessly.
In an attempt to avoid clashes with Indonesians, the British commander Lieutenant General Sir Philip Christison, diverted soldiers of the former Dutch colonial army to eastern Indonesia, where Dutch reoccupation was proceeding smoothly.
To avoid doctrinal strive over what orders exactly are covered by this concept, a consensus has developed that a strict formal definition can be applied: all general orders made by Royal Decree ( Subarticle 1 ) that have been submitted to the Council of Ministers and to the Council of State and have been published by the Staatsblad, are General Administrative Orders.
Some authors ( for example Willard, in General Topology ) use the term frontier, instead of boundary in an attempt to avoid confusion with the concept of boundary used in algebraic topology and manifold theory.
In 1956, the Virginia General Assembly passed a series of laws ( the Stanley plan ) to implement Massive Resistance, a policy promoted by the Byrd Organization led by former Virginia governor and U. S. Senator Harry F. Byrd to avoid compliance with the Supreme Court decision in Brown.
The General Assembly of Virginia changed the county's name to Arlington in 1920 to avoid confusion with the adjacent City of Alexandria.
His decision to join the United States Air Force for his active service was based on both the wonder of what the next fifty years may bring in aeronautics, and also to avoid accusations of nepotism if he joined the Army where, among other things, his uncle, General J. Lawton Collins, was the Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
General Guba is in possession of a nuclear-tipped SCUD aimed at Malden and the American forces must prevent the missile launch from happening to avoid the beginning of WWIII.
Behind the Bavarians came the Fussiliers of the " Young Guard ", four battalion-strong, which were led by the Emperor's aide-de-camp, General Reille, with strict orders to avoid " getting involved in any adventure ".
Despite his poor military experience, Pope Leo X named him Gonfalonier and Captain General of the Church ( commander in chief of the Papal Army ), though a clause allowed Frederick to avoid fighting against the Empire, to which Mantua has been always traditional ally.
However, many members of Garcetti's office made public statements on the issue, and Garcetti, citing the high emotions in his office about the Simpson case, opted to tender the decision to prosecute to Attorney General Dan Lungren to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.
* avoid confusion with General Motors University, a General Motors training center created in 1997.
The surrounding area became known as Cambridge Town, but was renamed " Camberley " in January 1877 to avoid confusion by the General Post Office with Cambridge in Cambridgeshire.
When they inquired about the SS General Sherman incident, the Koreans were initially reluctant to discuss the topic, ostensibly to avoid having to pay any recompense.
In his 1992 biography of Henry Kissinger, Walter Isaacson records that on 6 October 1973, during the 1973 Arab Israeli War, Kissinger urged President Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff General Alexander Haig to keep Nixon in Florida in order to avoid " any hysterical moves " and to " keep any Walter Mitty tendencies under control ".
General Ivanov, possibly to avoid any responsibility for his crushing defeat, claimed after the war that his Army consisted of only 36, 000 men and that many of his units were understrength, but a detailed analysis of his units contradicted him.
During the Kumul Rebellion Chiang Kai-shek was ready to sent Huang Shaohong and his expeditionary force which he assembled to assist Muslim General Ma Zhongying against Sheng Shicai, but when Chiang heard about the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang, he decided to withdraw to avoid an international incident if his troops directly engaged the Soviets, leaving Ma alone with not reinforcements to fight the Red Army.
At the end of the war, Erich Hartmann disobeyed General Hans Seidemann's order to Hartmann and Hermann Graf to fly to the British sector to avoid capture by Soviet forces.
I must say that during the war I never disobeyed an order, but when General Seidemann ordered Graf and me to fly to the British sector and surrender to avoid the Soviets, with the rest of the wing to surrender to the Soviets.

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