Two controversies arose during the campaign which tested him and his staff but were without effect on the campaign ; one involved a report that Nixon had improperly received funds from a secret trust – Nixon spoke out adroitly to avoid potential damage but the matter permanently alienated the two candidates.

To avoid debates about the possibility of in-vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, or cloning, the original Darwin Awards book applied the following " deserted island " test to potential winners: If the person were unable to reproduce when stranded on a deserted island with a fertile member of the opposite sex, he or she would be considered sterile.

The Ottoman Empire agreed to this condition to avoid conflict or potential war with France.

The referee intervenes to avoid unnecessary damage or potential injury.

During 2002, Moldova rescheduled an outstanding Eurobond, in the amount of $ 39. 6 million, to avoid a potential default.

Earthquake hotspots have been avoided in the planned route of the cable to avoid potential disruption to internet and telephone networks in Asia.

Long before the controversy Charlie Bate, noted Padstow folk advocate, recounted that in the 1970s the content and conduct of the day were carefully reviewed to avoid potential offence.

To avoid the professional hazard of politicized history, some historians chose pre-modern, mediæval history or classical history, where ideological demands were relatively relaxed and conversation with other historians in the field could be fostered ; nevertheless, despite the potential danger of proscribed ideology corrupting historians ’ work, not all of Soviet historiography was corrupt.

Apparently, things were not expected to change during the fourth season ; in a May 2005 posting at the TrekBBS, Clark explained that the lack of Enterprise novels was intended to avoid any further potential storytelling " land mines " since " Season Four kept doing stuff we wanted / planned to do ".

All on deck must be aware of, and if possible avoid, the potential arc of the boom, mainsheet and other gear in case an accidental jibe occurs during a run.

“ It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world – it may be in the United States of America – that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event.

* A special birthday song, " Merry Birthday To You ", was composed to avoid potential licensing issues for the traditional " Happy Birthday to You ".

Eager to avoid a similar calamity in the future the Soviet Union created the Warsaw Pact as means of establishing a series of buffer states, closely aligned with Moscow and serving to act as a political and military barrier between Russia's vulnerable borders in Eastern Europe and its potential enemies in the West.

In mathematics, an " italicized x " () is often used to avoid potential confusion with the multiplication symbol.

Studying how people dealt with animals, and its effects can help us avoid many potential ecological problems.

Noting that as recently as 1996, the legislature had authorized bills promoting same-sex adoption, the state determined that such a consistent policy did not exist ( this provision, however, did outline a potential path by which the legislature might avoid providing marriage rights to same-sex couples in the future if it so chose.

* Article 10. 6 and 11. 8, which states " Lack of scientific certainty due to insufficient relevant scientific information and knowledge regarding the extent of the potential adverse effects of an LMO on biodiversity, taking into account risks to human health, shall not prevent a Party of import from taking a decision, as appropriate, with regard to the import of the LMO in question, in order to avoid or minimize such potential adverse effects.

Another conservative legal scholar and judge, Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit does not condemn the entire regime, but expresses concern with the potential that it could be applied to create inefficiency, rather than to avoid inefficiency.

shall not prevent the Party of import, in order to avoid or minimize such potential adverse effects, from taking a decision, as appropriate, with regard to the import of the living modified organism in question.

Care should be taken to avoid unnecessary contact with these parts to reduce the potential for painful electrical shock.

The band name was shortened to Marillion in 1981 to avoid potential copyright conflicts at the same time as Fish and bassist Diz Minnett joined after an audition at Leyland Farm Studios in Buckinghamshire on 2 January 1981.

There are plans to relocate 163 state firms to the provinces and several universities from Tehran to avoid damages from a potential earthquake.

It is recommended that a player state " I am about to castle " before castling, to avoid potential misinterpretation.

Wherever it was essential, he was unafraid to introduce mathematics, but he tried to avoid scaring off potential readers with too many equations that did not illustrate essential points.

However, Casimir III the Great submitted to the Golden Horde and undertook to pay tribute in order to avoid more conflicts.

To avoid unnecessary armed conflicts, the Vietnamese rulers accepted this in diplomatic relation.

These " politically neutral " groups tend to avoid global conflicts and view the settlement of inter-human conflict as separate from regard for nature-in direct contradiction to the ecology movement and peace movement which have increasingly close links: While Green Parties and Greenpeace, and groups like the ACTivist Magazine for example, regard ecology, biodiversity and an end to non-human extinction as absolutely basic to peace, the local groups may not, and may see a high degree of global competition and conflict as justifiable if it lets them preserve their own local uniqueness.

From the end of the Continuation War with the Soviet Union in 1944 until 1991, the policy was to avoid superpower conflicts and to build mutual confidence with the Western powers and the Soviet Union.

The doctrine is grounded in the federal judiciary's desire to avoid inserting itself into conflicts between branches of the federal government.

Much later, the European colonial powers threatened in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but Thailand survived as the only Southeast Asian state to avoid European colonial rule because the French and the English decided it would be a neutral territory to avoid conflicts between their colonies.

Possibly to avoid such conflicts, in 1595 the Orthodox hierarchs of Kiev signed the Union of Brest, breaking their links with the Patriarch of Constantinople and placing themselves under the Pope.

The name of this program was originally chosen to avoid conflicts with a program called " newplot ", and was originally a compromise between " llamaplot " and " nplot ".

The schedule of events differs from the men's decathlon, with the field events switched between day one and day two ; this is to avoid scheduling conflicts when men's and women's decathlon competitions take place simultaneously.

Conflicts are detected and handled according to a " conflict resolution policy " ( although the best policy is likely to be to avoid conflicts ).

In previous agreements, the two groups have negotiated about respecting MILF camps and presence to avoid conflicts in these areas, an agreement that is prone to violation.

" Commonly, political jurisdictions will undertake land use planning and regulate the use of land in an attempt to avoid land use conflicts.

Pryderi and Manawydan travel to England to make a living from various trades, but were forced to leave one town after another to avoid conflicts with other tradesmen who resented their superior skills.

Large owls, such as those in the Bubo genus, may be killed by these eagles but usually avoid direct conflicts by being nocturnal in activity rather than diurnal.

He urged the new republic to avoid conflicts and alliances with other nations.

To avoid conflicts with Pern canon and trademarks, each club typically chooses a particular location and timeline as a unique setting different from Anne McCaffrey's established history of Pern.

Upon request, the TIFF administrator ( Adobe ) will allocate and register one or more private tags for an organization, to avoid possible conflicts with other organizations.

The system reserves resource IDs in a certain range to help avoid resource conflicts arising from this.

The Polish King, Casimir III the Great, submitted to the Horde and undertook to pay tribute in order to avoid more conflicts.

In 1931, after the killings of Masseria and Maranzano, Luciano created The Commission, which was supposed to avoid big conflicts like the Castellammarese War.

In this era, Rollins Band recorded with flamethrowing free jazz saxophonist Charles Gayle, though these sessions remained unreleased for ten years at Gayle's request to avoid conflicts with his contractual obligations.

In rejecting bank sales of accounts that functioned like mutual funds, the Supreme Court explained in Investment Company Institute v. Camp that it would have given “ deference ” to the OCC ’ s judgment if the OCC had explained how such sales could avoid the conflicts of interest and other “ subtle hazards ” Glass-Steagall sought to prevent and that could arise when a bank offered a securities product to its customers.