1.   -- Guaranteed money from NBC and Turner will help the NBA owners avoid financial hardship during an extended lockout.

2.   Despite a union promise not to strike, Bettman announced the lockout, saying the owners needed major changes in the business to avoid financial hardship.

3.   Increasingly, moderates are willing to organize and voice opposition to the American trade embargo and other sanctions to avoid further hardship on the island.

4.   But they plead for a slow transition to avoid hardship for those with low incomes, including pensioners and the unemployed.

5.   International aid organizations have asked that countries allow relief supplies to go through to avoid hardships on the thousands of people displaced within Burundi.

6.   The auctions were timed to avoid hardship ahead of presidential elections later this year.

7.   The king, flanked by his sons Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed and Prince Moulay Rachid, also called for modest economic reform to avoid hardship.

8.   Bulgaria has said it depends on the facility to avoid major hardship for its people.