All of their patient checks and procedures were designed to avoid an event like this.

And much of Clement's politics was designed to avoid such a blow, which he finally did.

Among other things, these codes are designed to avoid conflict of interest situations.

Is it designed to avoid some activity or person?

The limits are designed to avoid a run on the banks.

The planned projects will be designed to avoid ecological damage.

The new study was rigorously designed to avoid problems like the ones that came up in the earlier studies.

Side air bags are designed to avoid some of these problems, and have been much less controversial.

Indeed, China's legal system almost seems designed to avoid such judgments.

The gates were designed in modern patterns to avoid the feeling of being behind bars.