1.   ...a gritty determination to avoid humiliation.

2.   But by taking Delaware, he avoided the humiliation of losing an election in which he was running mostly against invisible opponents and gained a measure of needed credibility.

3.   During the barefoot run to the pool, the almost tactile sense of apprehension blends with determination to avoid humiliation.

4.   Intel will go into its trial with advantages that should allow the firm to avoid utter humiliation, and perhaps even prevail.

5.   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to call new elections to avoid the humiliation of being tossed out of office by Parliament.

6.   It must either be bolstered, scaled back or ended in order to avoid further humiliations, several United Nations officials said.

7.   One Mexican national newspaper already has called for the team to pull out of the World Cup altogether and come home now to avoid further humiliation.

8.   Renewed calls to withdraw U.N. forces and avoid further humiliation at the hands of the Serbs threw the West into a deep funk.

9.   There are ways, however, to avoid such humiliation.

10.   This is how I could avoid abject humiliation after a longer layoff than Sugar Ray Leonard.