The employee is unbending, and, though ostensibly friendly, seems determined to avoid doing anything to actually resolve the situation.
Since then, much as with Tony Blair in Britain (so far), Mr Clinton's greatest fiscal achievement has been to avoid doing damage to the fundamentally healthy economy he inherited from his political enemies.
By the time they are about seven, children start to lie to avoid doing chores or homework, to get something they want, to protect someone else, and to avoid punishment.
At least he was able to avoid doing collections at the homes of his classmates.
If he is wise, he may try to avoid doing much more than that.
Hard to avoid doing the same basic show over and over again.
Ultimately, it will be impossible to avoid doing business with Beijing.
Twitter has in many ways done Guy Adams a huge favor, but it is is the kind of good deed it should try to avoid doing in future.
Paradoxically, although euro membership has made it more urgent for Italy to deal with its structural faults, it may also have made it easier to avoid doing so, by cutting interest rates and eliminating exchange-rate crises.
Policymakers have to avoid doing too much too soon, which could kill a frail recovery, and doing too little too late, which could lead to budgetary crises and inflation or to a bond-market rout as investors anticipate trouble.
Parents don't have to pay payroll taxes on such payments as long as their children are under 18, but they must pay a market wage and the children have to be doing real work to avoid attracting the attention of the Internal Revenue Service.
Some ethical funds chose to avoid companies they deem "not to be doing business ethically" according to their subjective criteria.
But the public still has a right to demand that media professionals avoid doing or saying things that would reasonably cause others to feel humiliated or degraded.
Its very important to pace yourself during the holidays whatever you may be doing in order to avoid the holiday heart syndrome whether its in relation to shopping, eating drinking or decorating.
Facebook could have chosen to avoid the pop by doing a Dutch auction-style offering, as Google (GOOG) did in 2004.
What are you doing to avoid this trap with your disruptive technology?
For those people who would not normally be impacted by the law but are planning to convert an IRA to a Roth IRA, they too should consult their tax professional about doing it in 2012 to avoid being impacted by the new tax later.
"All the work that we are doing is to avoid this interference, " he said, according to Reuters.
Gamestop is determined not to go gently into the digital night, and is doing everything in their power to avoid being the next Blockbuster, as brick and mortar stores become more and more obsolete in the age of the download.
Mr Obama, after all, is doing his best to avoid dwelling on the weakness of the economy.
President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he was certain the U.S. was doing everything possible to avoid civilian losses in Afghanistan.
She wants to create smiles and avoid sitting around doing nothing.
Because of this, many women are doing everything they can to avoid off-ramping.
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Chinese policymakers are doing everything they can to avoid a so-called hard landing, a possibility they have only recently acknowledged.
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Where have you compromised a value you held dear, because doing so allowed you to avoid something unpleasant or feed your ego in some way?
We commend President Bush for doing what he can to avoid such an unnecessary and undesirable outcome by renominating John and seeking anew his confirmation by the Senate.
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Above all, in your efforts to make the Tories more modern, avoid doing anything which makes them seem merely frivolous.
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