It quickly backed away from the idea, and officials are now careful to avoid describing any proposals as an effort to control the mosques.

But we're going to try to avoid describing specific encounters in sexual terms.

Metropolitan Police chiefs have been extremely careful to avoid describing this as "justice" for Stephen Lawrence's family.

While they may describe the work, they avoid describing their own responses to it.

She doesn't give the reader any hints on how this might be accomplished; presumably, one is supposed to avoid describing him as the Son of God.

He says he deliberately used the phrase, and avoided describing it as "chucking things in".

Care must be taken to avoid describing or showing suicide or self-harming methods in explicit detail, unless there is a clear editorial justification.

I think that the countries which are not large - to avoid describing them as something else - should weigh up this proposal carefully.

Developers themselves now avoid describing communities geared for active older adults as retirement housing.

The Russian military would gradually extend its reach into Chechnya but would be careful to avoid describing it as an "invasion."