Israel's realists see this conference proposal as a trap to avoid direct negotiations.

They say he wants to avoid negotiations that might force him to yield more land than he plans to turn over unilaterally.

Bolsa Família avoids negotiations between the executive and legislative branches.

To avoid bitter negotiations with their opponents, they have often opted for one-year license extensions.

By secession, those republics tried to avoid difficult and protracted negotiations over the new borders.

European countries had been hoping to avoid such negotiations, which would inevitably lead to a further reduction of protection for farmers.

The bankers viewed the statement as an invitation to the Soviets to avoid negotiations and take the sort of unilateral action that occurred today.

Hitler suspects Poles will try to avoid negotiations.

For Delta, however, it was too late to avoid costly, drawn-out negotiations.