Playing safe.

She avoided his eyes.

She avoided his look.

I avoided Tom for two months.

I've been ducking them all day.

I've stayed away from people... I lived alone.

For years, I had resisted medication, making many, many efforts to get off.

She avoided her moral friends and went into grand Society.

Me passed out, escaping from reality with my legs resting by my side.

In addition, Valley lately avoided talking to the press, and that was wrong.

Kitty knew that her mother was offended that Madame Stahl seemed to avoid making her acquaintance.

The party of the first part, Connie Ennis although known and loved by the party of the second part, Carl Davis two long years did skillfully avoid the idea of a marriage between them.

It is of particular importance that the United Nations continue to cultivate a relationship of partnership with regional organizations and shun relationships of subordination.

Bilal told me there are others similar to him, one who is barely 12 and who has been shunned by his family for months.

Despite the lessons learned by Atari in the loss of its programmers to Activision, Mattel continued to try to avoid crediting game designers.

Cyrix was free to have their products manufactured by any manufacturer that had a cross license with Intel, which included SGS Thomson, IBM and others.

And now for the first time Anna turned the bright light in which she saw everything upon her relations with him, about which she had always avoided thinking.

Based on a prior understanding, the French avoided controversial issues, such as construction in West Bank settlements, the location of the separation fence and the (day after) the disengagement.

Unfortunately that was not always possible, but it was essential that the United Nations should at all costs avoid being seen as taking sides in a dispute.

It has usually had prompt access to those in regional and local command in the provinces, although there have been occasions where meetings appear to have been deliberately avoided.

Like many Hollywood stars, she supported the U.S. war effort through USO and similar activities, but she was careful to avoid supporting the Norwegian resistance movement, or making public statements against the Nazis.

Indeed, since the end of WWII, Japan has avoided a full fledged debate on the country's national security framework, in which Japan would have the courage to disagree with the US. Of course, most Japanese politicians, media commentators, and academics understand the need for this stance, and the Japanese trait of putting a lid on troublesome issues reinforces this silence, compounding all problems in foreign policy.

Awkward as it would have been for Levin to leave just then, he would have preferred doing so to remaining in the house for the rest of the evening in sight of Kitty, who now and then glanced at him but avoided catching his eye.

Indeed, since the end of WWII, Japan has avoided a full fledged debate on the country's national security framework, in which Japan would have the courage to disagree with the US.

It is precisely for these reasons that Greece, the birthplace of democracy, our millenary neighbour, avoided and gave up the opportunity to serve as a promoter of the integration of the Balkan countries into Europe after the fall of the iron curtain.

At first Anna had avoided the Princess Tverskaya's set as much as she could, because it demanded more expense than she could afford and also because she really approved more of the other set but after her visit to Moscow all this was reversed.

As the possibility of the failure of some peace keeping operations cannot be ruled out, it is necessary to face the facts and to draw object lessons from them if the United Nations is to avoid sliding into the repetition of the same mistakes.