| There are a few groups that have avoided acculturation and maintained the traditional lifestyle they brought from the homeland. |
| We studiously avoided that tone of spoiled and bored querulousness for which colonials were infamous. |
| Croaking frogs have to be avoided and a water snake or two may obstruct your path. |
| When I left I felt ashamed that even as a seasoned traveller I had avoided this area for fear of the past conflict. |
| The list, part newsletter, part community event forum, contains descriptions of johns to be avoided. |
| And because the script has wisely avoided writing them as stereotypically American, there are no jarring notes in the casting mix. |
