Now we're doing what we were trying to avoid in the first place - busing kids to schools, bypassing the neighborhood school.

These writers often add that the war could have been avoided in the first place by better diplomacy.

As I said, I'd sooner avoid the whole thing by avoiding war in the first place.

The easiest way to do that, of course, is simply to avoid these people in the first place.

That strategy is to avoid wrongdoing in the first place.

"Our goal is better rules, so that conflict, suspicion, and broken faith can be avoided in the first place."

Or better still, avoid the coma in the first place.

Thus, it is much preferable to avoid clipping in the first place.

It seems to me even more important, however, that this kind of situation is avoided in the first place.

Of course, the best news about bladder cancer would be a sure means of avoiding it in the first place.