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refrain from

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elude

keep away from

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Unfulfilled human rights involve human rights violations just in case there are agents or agencies that (i) "are causally responsible for (i.e., make a causal contribution to) the 'non-fulfillment' of the right"; (17) (ii) are "morally responsible (and thus morally to blame) for the non-fulfillment of the right because they 'foreseeably and avoidably' contributed to the non-fulfillment of the right"; (18) and (iii) are "in breach of a negative human-rights-correlative duty." (19) MacLeod's main conclusion is that I should drop the third condition.
Lamentably, and avoidably, we are now deprived of watching a truly great batter pitting his skills against the world's best bowlers for some time.
Mostly avoidably. Every hour, worldwide, ten diabetics undergo a lower limb amputation.
(46) If the society's affluence is sustained by a global system of rules that avoidably keeps billions in poverty, then the priority its members give to one another may be a violation of human rights rather than the fulfillment of a morally sound reciprocal contract.
Addiction will be viewed as an important health problem and addiction services valued as means to reduce the incidence of medical/surgical complications (substance-related illnesses and injuries) that substantially but avoidably drive up overall healthcare costs.
Many people are dying avoidably in the year after having a heart attack due to delays introducing this new treatment.
Napolitano reminds us, first, how uniquely fortunate we are as Americans to enjoy the individual protections guaranteed by our Constitution and, second, how fleeting liberty will surely be when the people avoidably surrender power to government--whether through ignorance and apathy or grossly misplaced trust.
A nice range of finds is presented, but in themselves these do not necessarily identify the nature of the temple-tour: Turning to the seals, the layout with horizontally and vertically mounted cylinder seal impressions is avoidably unattractive.
Even the manner of the defeat that Monday evening provided portents of the forthcoming doom, all three of Villa''s goals largely of Liverpool''s own making - from poor defending at set-pieces, the misfortune of an own goal and the avoidably rash concession of a penalty.
In other words, people are dying avoidably with cachexia, even if not directly from it and even if it never appears on a death certificate.
Doing so will result in fewer unjustified lawsuits, hopefully fair and reasonable compensation for patients who have been injured avoidably and, ultimately, the improvement in care of patients with otolaryngologic disorders.
Kaylee McIntosh drowned when a training exercise at an Army summer camp went disastrously - and avoidably - wrong in bad weather.
But I have tried to argue earlier that punishment often has other consequences, obiter and incidental; that these consequences should be mitigated so far as possible; and that the state incurs obligations of redress where these rights are avoidably infringed.
Wonderfully outspoken, expatriateAa Australian writer Dr Germaine Greer drew a storm in "politically correct racist" (PC racist), Bush-ite,Aa White Australia recently when she published an extended book-form essay entitled "On Rage" that discussed deeply angry Indigenous Australian responses to their continuing appalling treatment (see: here ) - treatment that I have described as a continuing Aboriginal Genocide in which 9,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably every year while Australia, the Land of Flies, Lies and Slies (spin-based untruths) simply looks the other way (see my essay "Climate Emergency, Exceptionalism & Ignoring Downunder.
Mr Howarth said: "We must provide adequate supervision and training so that fewer young lives are avoidably damaged."