1.   In Rockland, power plant developers tried to avoid any outcry by building in areas zoned for industry, though still woodsy.

2.   The ceremony was low key to avoid an outcry from nationalist hard-liners.

3.   The ceremony was low-key to avoid an outcry from nationalist hard-liners, but the Macedonian government publicly confirmed on Wednesday that all the guerrillas would get amnesty.

4.   This would enable Japan to avoid international outcries about the dangers of proliferation from stocking plutonium, the basic element used in making atomic weapons.