21.   Now international officials say they do not know what will happen next and seem anxious only to avoid further violence.

22.   Peer counseling programs, in which officials encourage students to talk out their problems instead of shooting them out, can be an effective tool for avoiding violence.

23.   Repeatedly, many of the demonstrators have vowed to avoid violence and, instead, disrupt the city with sit-ins and marches.

24.   Soldiers and the police mostly gave the students free rein in an attempt to avoid violence, but two small clashes erupted when aggressive demonstrators challenged police lines.

25.   Some pro-democracy advocates are even arguing the election should be immediately annulled to avoid violence.

26.   Talbott said a similar message was sent to opposition leaders, calling on them to avoid violence, but he did not blame them for the clashes.

27.   Terry Meek, director of the Capitol Police, credited leaders on both sides with avoiding violence.

28.   The Palestinians, who avoided violence during the campaign, would do well to continue in that vein.

29.   The Rev. Alexander Briley Jr. urged hundreds of mourners to avoid racial violence.

30.   The soldiers were under orders to let the peasants collect one last harvest to avoid any violence.