11.   In past years, the government has avoided enacting a ban, but this year it was expected to make that commitment.

12.   Indeed, local officials often help businesses hide their local tax payments so that local governments can avoid sharing the proceeds with Moscow as the law requires.

13.   Kuchma said the government is avoiding unpopular decisions on the eve of parliamentary elections in March.

14.   Moreover, such a deal would allow the government to avoid pursuing a criminal trial against the Texaco executive who brought the entire affair to light.

15.   Moreover, such a deal would allow the government to avoid pursuing a criminal trial against the individual who brought the affair to light.

16.   Other governments have avoided the problem by not rotating ambassadors or by bringing in lower-ranking diplomats, effectively downgrading relations.

17.   Prices declined early in the session after White House spokesman Mike McCurry said he saw no chance that the government would avoid a shutdown next week.

18.   Release of those funds ahead of schedule could make it easier for the South Korean government to avoid painful economic reforms, the officials said.

19.   Some House members object that the National Assessment implies a national curriculum that the government should avoid.

20.   That would allow the government to avoid divulging secrets that would have inevitably come out at a trial, which was scheduled for the fall.