And yet, there is a negotiation that cannot be avoided because, like it or not, the Republican Party continues to hold the majority of votes in the House of Representatives.

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The power of street art, like forgery, is that it cannot be avoided.

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Yet some traders in Athens fear that a crunch cannot be avoided.

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Laws of general applicability that require persons to meet certain general requirements of citizenship, such as paying taxes, cannot be avoided by the fact that they indirectly make it more difficult to fulfill a purely religious duty, such as a member tithing a certain amount to his church or making a pilgrimage to a shrine in a foreign country.

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And people will have to be more aware of the threats they face and accept that risks can be minimized, but sometimes cannot be avoided.

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But planning policy will always involve the balancing of economic and environmental considerations, and ministers are right to say that building on flood-plains cannot be avoided altogether.

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