11.   A clergyman in Yekaterinburg said Nikon had sought to avoid harsher punishment by asking to be transferred to a monastery northwest of Moscow.

12.   A study released last year found that avoiding corporal punishment generally increases the probability of the child being well-behaved and well-adjusted.

13.   Abused by guards and nearly starving, he composed verse, keeping it in his head to avoid punishment.

14.   But in recent months, the guerrillas appear to be gaining accuracy in their first strikes and then moving quickly to avoid Israeli punishment.

15.   Children, for example, lie to avoid punishment and to enhance their popularity.

16.   In the sixth, he tried to move and grab in order to avoid punishment, but Nelson was too aggressive to fend off.

17.   In the sixth, he tried to move and grab in order to avoid punishment but Nelson was too aggressive to fend off.

18.   It may be to gain some reward for holding the right opinion, or to avoid punishment for holding the wrong one.

19.   More irritating to some, the cadets seem to have annulled their marriage explicitly to avoid punishment.

20.   So thousands of men and women, draftees and enlistees, found themselves forced to conceal their sexual tastes or natures and to lie to avoid punishment.