How To Use Obviate In A Sentence

  • Disaster was obviated by the opening of the reserve parachute.
  • He also expressed optimism that an acceptable constitutional arrangement could be agreed which would obviate the need for Quebec to seek independence.
  • Limiting exceptions to the rule to clear cases obviates the need for deliberation in every case.
  • They can be opened to guest users, which will obviate the need for logins and passwords.
  • Any law enforcement agent who conducted a wiretap or private search would thereby always be presumptively guilty of a crime, and would have to cross his fingers and take his chances that prosecutors or jurors would ignore or obviate the law in his particular case. The Five Techniques
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  • Video teleconferencing obviates the need to collocate staffs and reduces ambiguity in commanders' intentions.
  • Our study obviates that criticism, because the antibodies we used are directed toward CXCL12 rather than to CXCR4-bearing NSCLC cells.
  • The lack of rainfall is obviated to a degree by a well-developed irrigation system based upon a series of distributaries running from the Lower Swat Canal.
  • To obviate the matter Lamarck conceived and proposed the dichotomic method for the easy determination of species. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
  • First, a well-functioning market economy does not obviate the need for democracy and civil and political rights.
  • This approach obviates the need for any recompilation or trapping because the operating systems themselves cooperate in the virtualization process.
  • When medicines become necessary to obviate that kind of costiveness which arises from imperfect intestinal contraction, physicians usually administer rhubarb, aloes, and similar laxatives, combined with tonics. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes
  • Edit: In a (rare) moment of self-doubt I looked up 'obviate' wondering if it's one of those words I've either misheard or used incorrectly. Archive 2007-08-01
  • Before I proceed to show how from the prosodical unities, the moved and the quiescent letter, first the metrical elements, then the feet and lastly the metres are built up, it will be necessary to obviate a few misunderstandings, to which our mode of transliterating Arabic into the Roman character might give rise. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • In order to obviate the performance of quarantine on our return, I took an officer of the establishment, and a couple of men, with me, who in the Levant are called Guardiani; but here the German word Ueber-reiter, or over-rider, was adopted. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.
  • As they made changes in the military doctrine, its authors practically obviated such concepts as strategic offensive operation in continental TO.
  • By permitting the use of suffer materials, it may obviate the problem of undesired sticking of particulates.
  • In these hot damp climates the venereal requirements and reproductive powers of the female greatly exceed those of the male; and hence the dissoluteness of morals would be phenomenal, were it not obviated by seclusion, the sabre and the revolver. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • He also expressed optimism that an acceptable constitutional arrangement could be agreed which would obviate the need for Quebec to seek independence.
  • His manner seemed to obviate questions as to why he had neither telephoned nor turned up the night before. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
  • The air which fills the lungs is soon again expired, whilst the ingesta of the abdominal viscera are for a longer period retained; and as the space, which by every inspiration the thorax gains from the abdomen, would cause inconvenient pressure on the distended organs of this latter cavity, so we find that to obviate this inconvenience, nature has constructed the anterior parietes of the abdomen of yielding material. Surgical Anatomy
  • In order to obviate that, because money is fungible and budget-cutting is suddenly in vogue, you would think that government agencies would be aggressively trimming noncritical, nonlife-threatening expenditures and diverting scarce resources to genuinely pressing needs. Waste And Bad Judgment Sprout At The USDA
  • By creating a legal and bureaucratic route to union representation and contract negotiations, the National Labor Relations Act largely obviated recognition strikes.
  • When it does become a reality, it is not expected to obviate the need for treatment.
  • On the other hand, if they have nothing to hide, then why should they not foreshorten the process, obviate the need for a formal investigation by, at a very early stage, offering a very full explanation for what took place.
  • However, the existence of representative government doesn't obviate the necessity of enquiry.
  • What he didn't have was a well-maintained e-government program that might have obviated the need for a snake-filled protest. Caroline Anstey: Technology Is Helping the Fight Against Corruption
  • Boehner and Pelosi wrote that while they are "mindful of the special place their unique experience holds in the memories of the young Americans privileged to serve as pages over the years, our decision to close the program reflects two current realities: Changes in technology have obviated the need for most Page services and the program's high costs are difficult to justify, especially in light of diminished benefits to the House. House to end page program after nearly 200 years
  • The most important of these results consisted in this, that the electromotive force produced in a "shunt-wound machine," as it was called, increased with the external resistance, whereby the great fluctuations formerly inseparable from electric arc lighting could be obviated, and thus, by the double means of exciting the electro-magnets, still greater uniformity of current was attainable. Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
  • The use of a solicitor trained as a mediator would obviate the need for independent legal advice.
  • He also expressed optimism that an acceptable constitutional arrangement could be agreed which would obviate the need for Quebec to seek independence.
  • There are those who argue that the signs of a recovery obviate any additional action by the administration to boost the economy.
  • This obviated much of the criticism that would have occurred if funding had been diverted from standard health or law enforcement budgets.
  • The distanced position of the spectator obviates the emotional experience of the sublime.
  • This battery is continuously charged by solar cells and the use of the cell obviates the need for separate charging of the battery.
  • More importantly, the capacity to reconstruct identity and political meaning is obviated by political actors who mobilise fear in order to strengthen unidimensional classifications of political belonging.
  • It won't obviate the need for the Government to address the chronic skills crisis that's facing our military.
  • He also expressed optimism that an acceptable constitutional arrangement could be agreed which would obviate the need for Quebec to seek independence.
  • His manner seemed to obviate questions as to why he had neither telephoned nor turned up the night before. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
  • To diagnose and obviate equipment malfunction.
  • This necessity should not be obviated by the fact that the global media, especially during the 1990s, has tended to direct attention away from the ever-present unvoiced crises that poverty and hunger represent.
  • The settlement, which concluded four months of negotiations, obviated the need for the separate cases to be heard in court.
  • All of which rather obviates the need for an answer to my first question.
  • A peaceful solution would obviate the need to send a UN military force.
  • The new treatment obviates the need for surgery.
  • Mr. Obama's jobs bill, which proposes $130 billion of aid for state and local governments, would obviate these reforms and take lawmakers off the hook for goosing workers' pensions in return for their political support. Obama's Selective Memory
  • Disaster was obviated by the opening of the reserve parachute.
  • Should this obviate the need to consider alternative theories?
  • But such divine activity does not obviate the urgent need for witness.
  • The new treatment obviates the need for surgery.
  • This incredible pillow-based innovation permits grandkids to obviate unpleasant grandma kisses and avoid exposure to toxic grandpa odors.
  • Pence then defended his party's opposition to embryonic stem cell research, falsely claiming there were alternatives that "obviated" the need for embryonic research. Multi Medium
  • All the terraces are concrete, which obviates the need to worry about timber decking rotting or getting slippery when wet.
  • For hunting and winter use I like what are called "continuations" fixed to breeches, as these gaiter-like pieces of cloth cover the leg to a certain distance below the swell of the calf, and keep it warm, besides preventing the knee of the breeches from working round, which men obviate by using garter-straps. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
  • He also expressed optimism that an acceptable constitutional arrangement could be agreed which would obviate the need for Quebec to seek independence.
  • The point is now practically unimportant since the fears raised were soon obviated by an informal agreement among insurance companies not to enforce their rights of subrogation in this respect in the absence of fraud.
  • The dietary need for potassium is obviated by the fact that there is a certain loss of potassium secreted with urates in the urine.
  • For a moment Anna didn't know whether the joking warmth of Thomas's tone would obviate the irony of his words. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • Every care is taken that the still does not become overheated; this precaution not only prevents loss of glycerine through carbonisation, but also obviates the production of tarry and other bodies which might affect the colour, taste, and odour of the distilled glycerine. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
  • It is your business to preserve the peace, and to obviate every evil that looks disgracious in the city's eye. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6
  • A software package was developed which obviated the necessity of having instructors in every class.
  • As such, the system already obviates the need for journals to pay for the work that they publish.
  • Coinfection is a particular issue if they have had sex in an area with a high prevalence of STIs, and therefore a positive herpes culture from a genital ulcer should not obviate the need to consider and test for syphilis or chancroid as well.
  • La Calprenède, as we have seen, does not give Arminius's wife her usual name of Thusnelda, but, to obviate a complaint from readers who have heard of Varus, he invents a protest on "Herman sla lerman" part against that general, who has trepanned him into captivity and gladiatorship, and makes him warn Augustus that he will be true to the Romans _unless_ A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
  • There was nothing she would not have done to extenuate her error, and to obviate its ill effect upon Camilla
  • Wikinvest co-founder Parker Conrad asserted in his pitch that Wikinvest and others might eventually obviate the financial services providers that rely on consumers not paying attention, or having opacity drive revenue in their products. Ben Mangan: Fintech Leaves Fake-o-nomics Behind
  • For many nuns their status as a professed religious did not necessarily obviate access to various parts of familial patrimony.
  • Of course, this concern is somewhat obviated due to vigorous advocacy from practitioners who do have such experience. The Volokh Conspiracy » Someone Like Me
  • Pence then defended his party's opposition to embryonic stem cell research, falsely claiming there were alternatives "obviated" the need for embryonic research. Think Progress
  • I have obviated these inconveniences and have ridden in comfort by wearing boots made two inches shorter than the regulation height, and by wearing breeches with "continuations," no stockings are exposed to view, even when one gets a fall. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
  • If there is such, the surveyor involved should be prevailed upon to discover whether measures have been taken to obviate flooding, and if so, whether they work.
  • To close this discourse, I shall only from it obviate a putid calumny cast by the Papists, Quakers, and others of the same confederacy, against the grace of God, upon the doctrine of the free justification of a sinner, through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ: for with a shameless impudence they clamour on all by whom it is asserted, as those who maintain salvation to be attainable through a mere external imputation of righteousness; whilst those so saved are Pneumatologia
  • That others should long and strive for that which had come to him, unsought, unwooed, was something he could neither obviate nor deny. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
  • Forcing that outcome now is right and timely, and may obviate the need to pursue it militarily later.
  • And to obviate any difficulties or misunderstanding which might arise from leaving indeterminate the sum necessary to be appropriated for the civil establishment of each of the respective powers, that the sum be now ascertained which is indispensably necessary to be applied to those purposes, and which is to be held sacred under every emergency, and set apart previous to the application of the rest of the revenues, as hereby stipulated, for the purposes of mutual or common defence against any enemy, for _clearing_ the incumbrance which may have become necessarily incurred in addition to the expenditure of those revenues _which must be always deemed part of the war establishment_. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
  • For a moment Anna didn't know whether the joking warmth of Thomas's tone would obviate the irony of his words. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • This, however, does not obviate the need for democratic forces to formulate a strategy for change.
  • So that nothing can be more superficial than this paradox of the sceptics; and it were well, if, in the abstruser studies of logic and metaphysics, we could as easily obviate the cavils of that sect, as in the practical and more intelligible sciences of politics and morals. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
  • A wind-based ventilation system installed in the eco-floatel obviates the need for an air-conditioner.
  • Basically, this means that ethical concerns about "destroying an embryo" for raw stem cell materials are obviated, since a parthenogenic ovum is not viable -- and furthermore, the elimination of an unfertilized egg every 28 days or so is noncontroversial, so presumbaly "rescuing" eggs before they're flushed will be similarily morally unambiguous. Boing Boing: January 27, 2002 - February 2, 2002 Archives
  • Cleves would exonerate him from all pecuniary hardships, his very deficiency in brilliancy of parts, and knowledge of mankind, which though differently modified, was equal to that of Sir Hugh himself, would obviate regret of more cultivated society, and facilitate their reciprocal satisfaction. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • Fortunately for her and for Santa, the problem was obviated by one of the most extraordinary events in the record of this admittedly extraordinary chronicle: The Invasion of the Hard-boiled Eggs. The Origins of the DylanThomassist Insurrection Part the Eighth: The Meaning of Christmas « Unknowing
  • And if you support a no-exceptions statutory ban on torture, what do you think about the use of mechanisms to obviate or get around the law in exceptional cases – prosecutorial discretion, jury nullification, presidential pardon, etc.? The Five Techniques
  • But then, that would obviate the need for Mozart's Marriage of Figaro.
  • `Perhaps we can obviate toil on your part and disturbance on ours.
  • And there are a number of cases that appear to obviate the need for a specifically partisan approach.
  • Disaster was obviated by the opening of the reserve parachute.
  • However, characterizing the migration and traction of a population of cells assuming time invariance obviates determination of dynamic changes in the associated parameters.
  • The use of thick gels obviated the need for bind silane.
  • My own view is that by turning over this information, we obviate the need for Matt to even testify, let alone be incarcerated.
  • Perhaps Gardner et al considered £2,480,750 a small price to pay to obviate a formal inquiry into the liquidation of a club he once ran but the CVA certainly leaves many unanswered questions. x-headThe football authorities have invested so much effort into building a case against third-party ownership of players that Sunday's failure to prove wrongdoing at Queen's Park Rangers was a blow for the Football Association. Stan Kroenke's offer makes no mention of fate of Arsenal's cash
  • Boehner and Pelosi wrote that while they are "mindful of the special place their unique experience holds in the memories of the young Americans privileged to serve as pages over the years, our decision to close the program reflects two current realities: Changes in technology have obviated the need for most page services, and the program's high costs are difficult to justify, especially in light of diminished benefits to the House. After nearly 200 years, House page program ending
  • Netflix understood the revolution taking place in the global supply chain, particularly in the field of logistics which obviated the need to carry large inventories. Tom Silva: Netflix Opens a Pandora's Box
  • What you could lament is the lack of "alias" in Windows, which would obviate the need for the batch file. FAST Is A Geeky Command-Line Database | Lifehacker Australia
  • This construction obviates the need to incorporate time into the backward construction of genealogical histories.
  • The new boards obviate the need for accurately positioned spotlights or coloured bulbs.
  • A peaceful solution would obviate the need to send a UN military force.
  • There are those who argue that the signs of a recovery obviate any additional action by the administration to boost the economy.
  • Do you believe that the use of prosecutorial discretion, jury nullification, the necessity defense, executive clemency and any other mechanisms that are available to obviate or circumvent criminal statutes is unethical in all cases, without exception? and, uh, things like executive clemency are all firmly within the law. Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives’ Unhinged Attacks on Nancy Pelosi
  • Are we to perpetually rely on the Courts to twist constitutional doctrines, in myriad ways, with all their resulting sorts of side effects (and benefits, too, no doubt) and absurdities in order to obviate antideluvian laws, particularly those regulating social norms? The Volokh Conspiracy » Recent Michigan Prosecutions for “Seducing an Unmarried Woman” 
  • An _alphabetical_ arrangement, be the books of whatever kind they may, will in general obviate the inconvenience felt from such an undigested plan; and it were "devoutly to be wished," by all true bibliographers, that an act of parliament should pass for the due observance of this alphabetical order. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
  • Multiple papillomata involve no danger to life other than that of easily obviated asphyxia, and it is moreover a benign self-limited disease that repullulates on the surface. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • The simplicity of the product would also obviate the need for independent financial advice at the point of sale.
  • She's right that you may need to resole, but that is obviated by the other good suggestion, which is to get pads/insoles.
  • Most of the suggested defects of the card catalogue, as concerns the readers, can be obviated by making a two-fold catalogue, the type-written titles being manifolded, and one set arranged in card-drawers for the use of the library staff, while another is mounted on large sheets in bound volumes for use of the public. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
  • Of course, the intention of this is allow con members to make informed choices for the Hugo awards; it does not obviate the need to support the authors of this material with real purchases that they get royalty monies for. 2010 Hugo Award Nominees and download packet « Hyperpat’s HyperDay
  • _Hence_? the induration of the calyx should be the most permanent if it is the cause, but to obviate all doubts, both calyx, fructus induratus, and capsula circumscissa, should enter into the generic character; the unilaterality of capsules, and their invariable tendency to look downwards, or rather the inferior unilaterality, may likewise reasonably be considered connected with the same structure of calyx, as well as the expanded limb of the calyx. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
  • Additional procedures can be done, such as gastrotomy, which obviates the NG tube and decreases the risk of recurrent volvulus. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • To obviate this, grapnels have been devised which, simultaneously with hooking the cable, will cut it and hold the desired end.
  • `Perhaps we can obviate toil on your part and disturbance on ours.

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