| A basic assumption suggests that prevention may be fruitfully divided into the promotion of desired events and the obviation of undesired ones. |
| The obviation of Roderick's death in no small part constitutes the wishful thinking of a military state in transition. |
| They emphasise that the obviation of these figures is a form of patriarchy. |
| The utility of frozen section analysis in intraoperative surgical management, especially obviation of unnecessary radical surgery, has never been properly investigated. |
| Dresses, she said, owe at least some of their formidable staying power to their forgiving shapes, unfussy construction and obviation of caked-on accessories or cumbersome layering. |
| Obviation is found in some American Indian languages including Algonquian, Apachean, Eskimo, Keresan, and Kutenai. |
