Unavoidable

Examples

• But how disadvantageous soever this system may appear, yet, before the Union, the low price of cattle seems to have rendered it almost unavoidable. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When one has such a notion, activity is a mere unavoidable means to something else; it is not significant or important on its own account. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You see this is unavoidable? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• That is, of course, unavoidable, being in Chancery. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• At first sight this may seem a necessary and unavoidable consequence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• One meeting was unavoidable. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• This conclusion leads them into another, which they regard as perfectly unavoidable. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This account of love is not peculiar to my system, but is unavoidable on any hypothesis. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• That silent unavoidable challenge is in all our minds like dawn breaking slowly, shining between the shutters of a disordered room. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Instead of urging that issues are inevitable, instead of being swamped by problems that are unavoidable, we may stand up and affirm the issues we propose to handle. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It might come to be justifiable and unavoidable at last,' the Secretary gently hinted, with a slight stress on the word. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But look at the _way_ these innovations are presented and I think the feeling is unavoidable that the control of government is emphasized as an end in itself. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Colonel Brandon again repeated his sorrow at being the cause of disappointing the party; but at the same time declared it to be unavoidable. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Many startling successes and a few unavoidable failures were the outcome of this long period of continuous work. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• One of the most disagreeable consequences of the use of hard water for bathing is the unavoidable scum which forms on the sides of bathtub and washbowl. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• These were the unavoidable difficulties of the situation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It does not obstruct the industry of the people; it subjects the landlord to no other inconveniency besides the unavoidable one of paying the tax. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Be not disturbed at trifles, nor at accidents common or unavoidable. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The narrowness of view, which to ourselves appears so singular, was to him natural, if not unavoidable. Plato. The Republic.
• If any unavoidable change has come, in the sequence of time, upon our married life, you are not to blame. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• These are unnecessary disasters, but they may be unavoidable disasters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Oliver