I could have prevented this.

People could have avoided many mistakes by simple experiments.

Du Cabiau à Kinshasa thinks the accident was all but inevitable

He would have wanted to avoid the grandstanding and propaganda generally associated with public negotiations.

I don t know how to evaluate that claim, or whether we could have prevented those attacks in other ways.

You would be saved a great deal of trouble.

Tom has been avoiding me.

Burma is in chains, Zimbabwe is a human tragedy, in Sudan thousands of people have died unnecessarily for wars that we could prevent.

Reflecting developments in oil prices , the annual rate of change in industrial energy prices increased in the first few months of the year but eased thereafter , supported by the moderation of oil prices and the appreciation of the euro .

I know you've been avoiding me.

Had the other parties united, this could have been prevented, but their shortsightedness made a united front impossible.

Depression is treatable and suicide is preventable.

Use of piecewise polynomials The problem can be avoided by using spline curves which are piecewise polynomials.

In an impersonal crowded situation, eye contact tends to be avoided.

By that, Boeing means that there may also have been other problems, but that an accident could have been avoided if the crew had done their job correctly.

But a lot of these problems can be avoided by remembering the definition.

For the West and for Europe first and foremost this dilemma cannot be avoided.

Many successful dramatic tenors though have historically avoided the coveted high C in performance.

With Anne's restoration at court, Berkeley House became a social centre for courtiers who had previously avoided contact with Anne and her husband.

In case of any loss of financial instruments which the depositary safe keeps , the depositary can only discharge itself of its liability if it can prove that it could not have avoided the loss which has occurred .

Ruling out an in house solution made the team s job much easier and may have avoided a delay in the schedule, but the ultimate consequences of this decision for IBM were far reaching.

It is the marriage kiss of death and something that should be avoided.

Although averted, the plot highlighted the danger of allowing Richard to live.

Turan suggested that American Beauty may have benefited from Mendes' inexperience, as his anything's possible daring made him attempt beats that more seasoned directors might have avoided.

He rallied the deputies to his view, and in defeating the unconstitutional proposal, the coup attempt was crushed.

More than a third of this cost could be avoided if better software testing was performed.

But, in judging leaders, we need to pay attention to acts of both omission and commission, to what happened and to what was avoided, to the dogs that barked and to those that did not.

This suggests that the weak demand conditions may have prevented firms from passing on increases in energy and intermediate goods prices in early 2003 to later production stages .

This must be avoided , not least in order to rebuild the credibility of the revised Stability and Growth Pact .

With respect to fiscal policies , a discretionary fiscal loosening in EU countries should be avoided .

Progestogens such as norgestrel and levonorgestrel should be avoided due to their androgenic effects.

In those situations, we want a car that is capable enough to avoid any accident that can physically be avoided.

Unfortunately, the World Bank s approach has evaded these issues or addressed them inadequately.

Nevertheless, unlike its neighbours of Vietnam and the Philippines, Malaysia has avoided any conflicts with China.

With regard to fame and stardom, he said In the same interview, he was also asked a question if stardom can be avoided.

Later, David Maxwell Fyfe proved it was impossible for Göring not to have known about the Stalag Luft III murdersthe shooting of fifty airmen who had been recaptured after escaping from Stalag Luft IIIin time to have prevented the killings.

And, though the Russian diplomatic initiative (based on a joint proposal with Iran) averted this disaster, everything has its price.

Halappanavar died from septicemia, which her family is certain would not have developed if the termination had been carried out.

Their formula allows the transition probability between two diabatic potential curves in the neighborhood of an avoided crossing to be calculated.

Io Hera almost caught Zeus with a mistress named Io, a fate avoided by Zeus turning Io into a beautiful white heifer.

In practice, MIME has seen increased adoption in text messages, but it is avoided for most binary attachments.

In some monarchies, such as the United Kingdom, an interregnum is usually avoided due to a rule described as The King is dead.

The axiom of choice is avoided in some varieties of constructive mathematics, although there are varieties of constructive mathematics in which the axiom of choice is embraced.

Revenue hungry governments will impose a lower tax when they think that it can be evaded than when they think that it cannot.

Others, including Belgium and Cameroon, have avoided serious conflict, but have experienced significant acrimony over the treatment of linguistic and regional minorities.