He squeezed her hand, looking away, his face working to avoid tears.

The one thing I've been working to avoid most of my life!

Yet they'd worked just as hard to avoid a face-toface debate.

We did not work hard to avoid being discovered by the watchers.

They're happy and they work just enough to avoid starving.

That perception is something these government agencies work hard to avoid.

Today, some agencies are working to avoid mistakes of the past.

Our task is to work together to avoid these errors occurring in future.

In fact, lawyers are working hard to avoid that kind of litigation.

Most schools today work hard to avoid using the term "tracking."