Word: eschewed
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...weekly Economist of London, perhaps the staunchest supporter of the U.S. in the European press, bemoaned Carter's "amateurism" and warned that the President could not solve the country's problems "unless there is some understanding of how the world works and some readiness to eschew symbolism and appearances and go instead after the substance of the problems...
Progressives in Puebla were not at first counting on such an outcome. Pope John Paul II, in his opening speech at the conference, had denounced social injustice but also warned the bishops not to politicize the church, and to eschew violent reform−a delicate balance that discouraged many progressives by its ambiguity. A source of more distress was Colombian Bishop Alfonso López Trujillo, the CELAM secretary general who reportedly had received Vatican approval to stack the group with conservatives to avoid a reprise of the 1968 CELAM II in Medellin, Colombia. There, a liberal minority pushed through...
...silence points to a seeming contradiction in the way it handles public reaction to its vast authority. "We have nothing to hide," claimed a slightly annoyed Mike Troy in reference to the many questions raised about the AAU's decision to eschew disclosure of the full details. "I just think it's unfortunate," he added moments later, "that this thing got out in the press...
...cannot expect the other nations of the world to continue to eschew the acquisition of nuclear weapons if the U.S. and the USSR cannot even stop their own accumulation of more weapons," Warnke said...
...plea bargaining [Sept. 4]. As a practical matter, bargaining is essential to this system, as a means of streamlining gargantuan case loads, and as a vehicle for ensuring the swift and inexpensive administration of justice, such as it is, in appropriate cases. Any prosecutor who claims to wholly eschew plea bargaining is dismissing a lot of borderline cases, losing a lot of jury trials or seriously misstating himself...