Whitehead's classical statement is a set of antithetical statements that attempt to avoid self-contradiction by shifting them from a set of oppositions into a contrast:

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

She was exposing herself to temptation which it is best to avoid where it can consistently be done.

There is indeed a moral responsibility on man himself, for his own soul's sake, to respect lower life and to avoid the infliction of suffering, but this viewpoint Schweitzer rejects.

Long-range planning of programs and ways to finance them have become musts if the state in the next few years is to avoid crisis-to-crisis government.

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.

( To avoid any possible excuse for a dripping parade through your house, it is a good idea to have a telephone extension near the pool as well as a direct outdoor route between the pool, and the parking area.

To avoid this contradiction it is necessary that C be composite, with the secant of **zg and a curve of order Af as components.

It is one that most try to avoid, as long as they can see an alternative approach to the problem.

People with empathic concern help others in distress even when exposure to the situation could be easily avoided, whereas those lacking in empathic concern avoid helping unless it is difficult or impossible to avoid exposure to another's suffering.

To avoid confusion, the annual scientific research conference dedicated to the study of MND is called the International ALS / MND Symposium.

This is to avoid the notion that a writing system that represents sounds must be either a syllabary or an alphabet, which implies that a system like Aramaic must be either a syllabary ( as argued by Gelb ) or an incomplete or deficient alphabet ( as most other writers have said ); rather, it is a different type.

Armenia's economy is highly anticompetitive with government-connected individuals enjoying de facto monopolies over the import and distribution of basic commodities and foodstuffs, and under-reporting revenue to avoid paying taxes.

In the intermediate state the awareness is very flexible, so it is important to be virtuous, adopt a positive attitude, and avoid negative ideas.

To avoid attacks based on simple algebraic properties, the S-box is constructed by combining the inverse function with an invertible affine transformation.

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

:" It is sensible to avoid drinking alcohol when taking medication.

He argued that emotivism is an inadequate explanation of the human experience of morality because people avoid acting immorally, even when it might be in their interests.

It has been reported to move quickly as to avoid human contact, and often is described as emitting a " blood-curdling scream.

Topical analgesia is generally recommended to avoid systemic side-effects.

Some Nasheed singers avoid instruments in the background due to the opinion of certain scholars that their use is prohibited.

Poirot himself noted that he wanted to kill his victim shortly before his own death so that he could avoid succumbing to the arrogance of the murderer: viewing himself as entitled to kill those he deemed necessary to eliminate.

The exact splitting algorithm is implementation dependent, only the flatness criteria must be respected to reach the necessary precision and to avoid non-monotonic local changes of curvature.

In Scheme, it is ( broadly ) necessary to avoid giving variables names which clash with functions ; Scheme functions frequently have arguments named,, or so as not to conflict with the system function.

Both are optional and are used only if it is necessary to avoid ambiguity.

The slam allowed the Tigers to clinch the pennant and avoid a one-game playoff ( that would have been necessary without the win ) against the now-second-place Washington Senators.

The system was a simple one in which each ship received a number which was appended to its ship type, fully spelled out, and added parenthetically after the ship's name when deemed necessary to avoid confusion between ships.

If they turned to illegality it was due to the fact that honest toil only benefited the employers and often entailed a complete loss of dignity, while any complaints resulted in the sack ; to avoid starvation through lack of work it was necessary to beg or steal, and to avoid conscription into the army many of them had to go on the run.

He forcefully argued that this transformation was necessary to avoid the spectre of revolution that would otherwise shake society.

To avoid problems with returns from coprocessor, bus error, and address error exceptions, it was generally necessary in a multiprocessor system for all CPUs to be the same model, and for all FPUs to be the same model as well.

Because of the canon of constitutional avoidance ( i. e., where a statute can fairly be interpreted so as to avoid a constitutional issue, it should be so interpreted ), courts generally deal with the constitutional issues only if necessary.

This is necessary in order to avoid criticism from the International Narcotics Board, which historically has taken a dim view of any moves to relax official drug policy.

In physical film systems, it is necessary to pull down the film frame, and this pulling-down needs to be obscured by a shutter to avoid the appearance of blurring ; therefore, there needs to be at least one flicker per frame in film.

To avoid abuse of powers, legislation foresees written consent of the supervisory prosecutor as necessary precondition to conclude plea agreement and to amend its provisions.

Typically computer versions start as per Othello, but the name Othello ( along with certain meaningless features of board design ) is trademarked so that use of the name Reversi is necessary to avoid legal problems.

Manufacturers contend they are necessary to avoid unfairness and encourage consumers to maintain their property.

When the waves are steep, it may be necessary to sail closer to the wind to avoid waves directly on the beam.

This practice was necessary due to the Shinto belief in the impurity of death and the need to avoid this pollution.

In addition to the actual speech coding of the signal, it is often necessary to use channel coding for transmission, to avoid losses due to transmission errors.

Christian justified the massacre in a proclamation to the Swedish people as a measure necessary to avoid a papal interdict, but, when apologising to the Pope for the decapitation of the bishops, he rather blamed his troops for performing unauthorised acts of vengeance.

Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson explicitly relied on Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr .' s " clear and present danger " test as adapted by Learned Hand: " In each case must ask whether the gravity of the ' evil ,' discounted by its improbability, justifies such invasion of free speech as necessary to avoid the danger.

Authors such as John Zerzan and Derrick Jensen consider that modern technology is progressively depriving humans of their autonomy, and advocate the collapse of the industrial civilization, in favor of small-scale organization, as a necessary path to avoid the threat of technology on human freedom and sustainability.

Hand-painted items of terracotta, pewter, and some other materials should not be handled any more than necessary, to avoid smudges or chipping.