Expecting trouble from the law, they had avoided strife among themselves.

The glare showed that the monstrosity had turned away, as though eager to avoid further strife with Harry.

It was her job as an editor to get along with the writers in her orbit; to smooth out problems and avoid strife.

"Does your desire to avoid strife in Amber work both ways?"

This was absurd, since the whole object of pursuing religious unity in states was to avoid civil strife.

Many programmers were taking jobs abroad to avoid the rioting and religious strife, he said.

But he said the purpose of the dialogue was to avoid domestic strife between the two religions, not to hash out Middle East issues.

The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations.

The power struggle concluded with a compromise in order to avoid internal strife.

The two developers have managed - just barely - to avoid the rancor and strife that have plagued the site.