But he says in fact, sharks are very shy creatures that do not like to attack humans.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

They were very shy and would run away whenever Miz Goodall came near.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

What we have today is a situation where children themselves shy away from continuing to secondary school because there is no future."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

The family was told it was inoperable. At school,the bulging tumor made Andrea self-conscious and shy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

"And,also,mainstream press have not been able to or shy away from reporting these cases.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

But,I make a commitment here that once we get to our final report, we will not shy away from making criticisms either of institutions, or processes or individuals wherever they are truly warranted,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Roger Smith,a co-founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says many Turks refuse to use the word 'genocide.' "I worked with some Turkish scholars and these are people who would be considered liberals and so on - but even they really kind of shy away from using the word 'genocide.' They will talk about massacres - you lay all of these things out and they say yeah,yeah,yeah, this happened,okay - well no,I don't want to use that word.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19