What must be avoided at all costs is that this city becomes nothing but a tourist destination.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Representative Donald Payne, who chairs the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, said further violence can be avoided only if Somalis from all three regions of the country come together: "As we gather today many Somalis continue to be displaced, maimed and killed.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

The Serbian president said there will be an investigation into how Mr.Mladic avoided arrest for so long.

VOA: special.2011.05.28

Two thousand nine may be remembered as the year the world avoided an economic depression.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

it has avoided bankruptcy so far." It all depends,says Faulkner, on whether the damaged well can be fixed, the spill stopped permanently and how well clean-up operations go.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27