1.   Had the government been able to avoid foreign war its situation would have been highly satisfactory.

2.   The Secretary of State assured reporters that the Administration was doing its utmost to avoid war.

3.   The United States adopted a policy of unilateral disarmament as a way to avoid another war.

4.   Their relief that war had been avoided was combined with sadness at what they had lost.

5.   They told Jacques Delors a disastrous world trade war must be avoided at all costs.

6.   The government avoided a war by successfully resolving the issues through diplomacy.

7.   They appeased the dictator by accepting his demands in an effort to avoid war.

8.   The President sided with the doves and worked to avoid war.

9.   The sheer destructiveness of the H-bomb could force the rival power blocs to negotiate and seek ways to avoid general war.