We were avoiding Tom.

Why have you been avoiding me?

Journalists avoided commenting on these matters.

They avoided each other for days.

Objectives not in line with these aspirations have been criticized and often shunned.

According to legend, those woods used to be haunted, so people would avoid entering.

But a return to high growth in developing countries requires that they resume their push into tradable goods and services.

Global macroeconomic stability requires that we avoid such large current account imbalances in the future.

Two years, I was ostracized, I was stigmatized, I was isolated, because I was a victim.

On this basis, the US and China avoided conflict over the issue for nearly two decades.

They hated communism, but, convinced that the system could not be reformed, they avoided the democratic opposition.

The sad irony is that they spoke out about him after his assassination, after preventing his access for years.

Most importantly, the US and China should avoid developing exaggerated fears of each other s capacities and intentions.

Fearing punishment for illegally trying to persuade people, both journalists and scholars avoided discussing the draft constitution publicly in significant detail.

Regional governments may not have openly supported the insurgents, but they clearly avoided cracking down on the jihadist groups operating within their borders.

The challenge facing the al Saud is to include at the heart of the political system the peoples they have shunned for decades. Unless they begin to do so, these peoples will drift into the camp of the fanatics if not as active terrorists than as passive supporters, much as the Catholic community in Northern Ireland passively embraced IRA terrorism as a way to end their exclusion from political life in the province.

But all these reforms involve government handouts or government created jobs and opportunities rarely do they involve removing the government s grip over people s lives. By framing the debate on reform as being about the type of handouts, governments evade tackling the real problem their control of economic activity.

The challenge facing the al Saud is to include at the heart of the political system the peoples they have shunned for decades.

When Southeast Asia's colonial rulers were overthrown four decades ago, ethnic Chinese often shunned the nationalist movements that fought for independence.

By framing the debate on reform as being about the type of handouts, governments evade tackling the real problem their control of economic activity.

Indeed, Karadzic and Mladic have evaded arrest for years indeed, since the Dayton peace accords were signed.

Neither Gilani nor Singh was certain of domestic public support for further warming of relations, so they played it safe, rather than displaying the bold leadership that the occasion demanded.

Until now, member governments have largely evaded open debate on the pros and cons of federalism, because they were divided on the Union's long term destination.

Meanwhile, East Asia, where governments eschewed these doctrines and were active in promoting growth has seen incomes soar and poverty plummet despite the crisis of 1997.

Europe and Japan have also avoided the financial contributions to AIDS control that could keep millions of HIV infected Africans alive.

MAC We have proposed the creation of necessary institutional and cultural regulatory conditions so that citizens, public servants and the private sector avoid, reject and report corruption, in all of its forms.

Pax Asia Pacifica s institutions will need to be built, as Europe s peace was built after World War II, on strong, cooperative undertakings among the most powerful countries and regional blocs the US, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Russia, and the ASEAN 10. The region s continued economic growth and progress require that we Asians contain our rivalries and avoid the arms buildups that, unfortunately, now seem to be underway.

Unlike the so called chicken hawks who avoided service in the Vietnam War themselves but could barely wait to send young Americans into Iraq to fight, McCain s life is not at odds with his politics.

The region s continued economic growth and progress require that we Asians contain our rivalries and avoid the arms buildups that, unfortunately, now seem to be underway.

Unlike the so called chicken hawks who avoided service in the Vietnam War themselves but could barely wait to send young Americans into Iraq to fight, McCain s life is not at odds with his politics.

As a result, despite a tripling of the global population, we have so far evaded Malthus 1798 prediction that human population growth would inevitably outstrip our ability to produce food.

It s an unfortunate reality in nearly every major city road congestion, especially during rush hours. Jonas Eliasson reveals how subtly nudging just a small percentage of drivers to stay off major roads can make traffic jams a thing of the past.

If Somaliland s imminent multi party elections are reasonably fair and open, the outside world, including the AU and the United Nations, will need to reconsider its status, which has been fudged since the collapse of Siad Barre s regime in 1991.