21.   Still, the challenge for Silicon Graphics could well be in avoiding the clash of cultures and purposes that so often surface when any two companies are combined.

22.   The Clinton administration, anxious to avoid a clash, is considering trading new, second-growth timber sales for the contentious marbled murrelet sales.

23.   The Israeli soldiers were to leave at night, evidently to avoid any clashes with the population.

24.   The time may come when we cannot avoid the clash of forces in ground combat or when high casualties are inevitable.

25.   The women are kept in a separate, fenced-in tent area to try to avoid clashes between the men.

26.   There is still time to avoid a clash.

27.   To avoid clashes, we worked out a scheme of territoriality.

28.   Opposition leaders urged the protesters to disperse peacefully and avoid clashes.

29.   Police and National Front security guards took positions to avoid clashes.

30.   Police apparently wanted to avoid clashes with Israelis at a time when Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat was holding talks in Washington with U.S. President Bill Clinton.