The strategy worked Argentina has avoided making any payments to its creditors.

Nevertheless, the government of Sweden carefully avoided committing itself to Finnish foreign policy.

Moreover, Poland avoided extreme booms and the deep recessions that follow.

As a result, Greece has avoided generalized bank failures, and it has been able to continue paying its public employees.

Park avoided active politics for many years after her parents death, but later won a parliamentary seat.

Serious problems appeared to be skirted, deliberately hidden, or played down.

Had Obama s attempt at muddling through worked, it would have avoided some big philosophical battles.

Taking the view that existing texts were too mathematical for medical students, Bird avoided such material in favour of clear explanations.

At the same time, a technical default by Greece was avoided, and the country implemented a successful if coercive restructuring of its public debt.

It is notable that Finland avoided formal ties with Nazi Germany up until the ambiguous Ryti Ribbentrop Agreement, which was signed after the fall of Viipuri in June 1944.

Whilst Nusra has avoided the strict imposition of Islamic law in areas where it has a presence, there has been popular opposition to the group due to its attempts to undermine local civil administrative structures, and its establishment of parallel structures such as Sharia courts.

Humbled by military defeat, America can recover its regional relevance only by avoiding the sin of hubris, and learning to lead without attempting to dominate.

Even if the country avoids going over the fiscal cliff, a poorly designed political compromise that cuts the deficit too quickly could push an already weak economy into recession.

In a united effort, a major crisis that would have openly divided the Union for years to come and which would have made Europe a global laughingstock was averted.

It avoided the massive waste of human resources associated with high unemployment in America, where almost one out of five people who would like a full time job cannot find one.

Back then, the International Monetary Fund saved the global banking system by lending just enough money to heavily indebted countries default was avoided, but at the cost of a lasting depression.

Though I refrained from specifically addressing the issue of the feasibility of holding elections as scheduled on 30 October, it inevitably came up several times.

And China, when it took a 10 stake in the US private equity group Blackstone, eschewed any voting rights in the company s management, perhaps as a way of keeping US financial regulators happy.

Though she avoided a six month jail term for this charge, Amina remains in custody and now faces new charges undermining public morals , desecrating a cemetery and belonging to a criminal organization .

Indeed, by the end of 2007, more than 26.5 million rural households were using household biogas digesters, thereby avoiding CO2 emissions by 44 million tons.

Securitization avoided such costs and placed the new product advantageously with the complicity of rating agencies, which stood to profit from investors inexperience and lack of information.

By contrast, countries like China and India, which avoided a surge of capital inflows, managed to maintain highly competitive domestic currencies, and thereby kept profitability and investment high.

The Supreme Court, however, sidestepped the question of whether Hamdan was a prisoner of war, arguing instead that the conflict was governed by common Article III in all the Geneva Conventions, which regulates armed conflict not of an international character.

The reason that I avoided an MBA program other than the fact that I couldn't get into any because I had a 61 percent average out of high school and then 61 percent average at the only school in Canada that accepted me, Carlton but our MBA programs don't teach kids to be entrepreneurs.