During the campaign, Mrs. Whitman deliberately avoided specifying where she would find the budget savings to pay for the tax cut.

The passive voice may also be used to avoid specifying the agent of an action.

The regulators are widely expected to answer their own question "no," and avoid specifying distances when they issue the final report in a month or so.

In order to avoid specifying the default correlation between each entity pair in a portfolio a factorization is often applied.

Carefully, he avoided specifying precisely what kind of authority he had.

The plan deliberately avoids specifying any borders for the new state, leaving this open to negotiations, Palestinian officials said.

Use of the passive voice to avoid specifying an authority (e.g. "it is said")

Although changes in attitude are notoriously slow there are now some firms and local governments which positively avoid specifying age in their job advertisements.

Advocates of gender-neutral language find it difficult to avoid specifying gender in Serbian, since it is so built into the language.

Other forms of addressing are also possible, to avoid specifying the "maga" and "ön" pronouns.