"avoid" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This may have contributed to his success in avoiding confiscation of his remaining lands.
- The age of the bells makes them rare in the area and they narrowly avoided confiscation in 1942, during the German occupation.
- Given Mr. Klimentyev's run-ins with the law, trying to avoid confiscation seems to be an eminently practical consideration.
- Shortly after the prototype flew, aircraft production in Germany was brought to a complete halt by the Allies, and the K 16 was quickly evacuated to the Netherlands to avoid confiscation.
- Bermondsey had avoided confiscation, as its head, John de Cusancia, claimed to be Burgundian rather than French.
- United States Customs prohibits the importation of fresh foie gras; according to French sources, some American aficionados try to avoid confiscation by having it wrapped as a present.
- In practice, Protestant Royalists in Ireland could avoid confiscation by paying fines, while Catholics could not.
- Entirely innocent people might admit to lesser offences to avoid confiscation.
- In practice, those Protestants who had fought for the Royalists avoided confiscation by paying fines to the Commonwealth regime, but the Irish Catholic land-owning class was utterly destroyed.
- She had hired a Swiss investment counselor and a Brazilian lawyer and given them two instructions: to keep her ahead of inflation and to avoid confiscation of assets by communist governments.
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