Adjective : an unavoidable delay.    From Dictionary.com. 

How would you handle the unavoidability of death and zombification in a situation like that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference

Or is it simply a logistical unavoidability that one writer cannot possible write for every paper?.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

This suggests that unavoidability is misapplied when it concerns aspects of a person's own agency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Compatibilism] Reference

The only difference was with Siberia's insects, who outclassed their Polish counterparts in size, persistence, and unavoidability.    From Wordnik.com.  [DBTL 65: Green Hectares] Reference

Surrounding this notion, of course, is the unavoidability of humans being involved somehow, somewhere, in some operational capacity.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: I'm Willing To Do It] Reference

It is the living who demand guarantees about existence from some kind of higher power, about the meaning of life, about the unavoidability of fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Domestication of Death: The Poetic Universe of Wislawa Szymborska] Reference

By the time the driver pulled up to her building though, she had caught a second wind and now was laughing giddily at the unavoidability of death and taxis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crickets Try to Organize Themselves Into Some Raucous Pentameter.] Reference

 By the time the driver pulled up to her building though, she had caught a second wind and now was laughing giddily at the unavoidability of death and taxis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crickets Try to Organize Themselves Into Some Raucous Pentameter.] Reference

And this, Slote and other compatibilists (such as Dennett, 1984a) have suggested, is to draw incompatibilist conclusions illicitly from reasonable claims regarding unavoidability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Compatibilism] Reference

They go into the collective consciousness as firm evidence of your diligence, of the necessity of your ham-handed treatment of our liberties, of the unavoidability of the 3,075 Americans dead in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

SDI gave the United States and our diplomacy an aura of potency; it was leading the Soviets toward the view that they could never match American strength and leading them as a consequence to the unavoidability of negotiations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turmoil and Triumph] Reference

Once you have accepted the inescapability of your own death instead of avoiding it, covering it up, and so on, paradoxically, it frees you for living a full life of caring for yourself and for others because everything else is relativised in light of the unavoidability of death.    From Wordnik.com.  [enowning] Reference

Wanting something to happen and actually getting it to happen are two different things and refusing to agree to continue to pursue something that is impossible using the resources being employed is not rooting for failure it is recognizing the inevitability and unavoidability of failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary And Obama Campaigns At War Over Bill's Iraq Comments] Reference

Part of it is its unavoidability; whether we like it or not, the Oscars have sway over film culture, so even if we relatively few champions of aesthetic quality over sensational pizazz ultimately amount to little more than self-declared flies in the ointment, at least we've put forth the effort in other words, we can sleep at night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delayed Greetings and Awards Madness] Reference

A counterargument would stress that the greatest learning is derived from the inimitable, silence betrays cowardice, disaffiliation and indie culture give the lie to the unavoidability of affiliation, the literary field exists in many sites other than the academy, self-victimization is the reigning philosophy, program writers are more self-commodifying than the disaffiliated, the system purges internal feedback from dissenters, and the end of excellence is well in sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught?] Reference

In addition to their unavoidability, there are other reasons for the deluge of mailers.    From Wordnik.com.  [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference

I've literally seen it, at least in parts if not beginning to end every time, into the HUNDREDS of times just by its utter unavoidability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood Elsewhere] Reference

After I shed Christianity, I became terrified of death, probably because I had never been terrified of the unavoidability of death as a child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atheist Blogs Aggregated] Reference

That, the alleged unavoidability of globalization itself does not necessarily call for following the unique set of policy requirements set by the neoliberal agenda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign Policy In Focus] Reference

But make no mistake about it: this was a supremely realistic statement about the presence of evil in the world, the limitations of international institutions, the need to talk to tyrants, and the unavoidability of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

In theory, a proper poll should go further and stick with the very same group of people, but for several reasons, that has other problems-such as the unavoidability of the polling process itself affecting the outcome (among other things) - which is why idiotic things like Luntz's focus group are fatally flawed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

I’ve seen a couple of references in the comments here about the unavoidability of both impotence to some degree and incontinence after prostate surgery and that is not true anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Small c: The penis post « BuzzMachine] Reference

A critical stance toward a unilateral globalization of Western modernity, a stance which at the same time accepts in part its unavoidability and in some respects even affirms its necessity, gave rise to the idea of “overcoming modernity” ” an overcoming that would take place not by retreating from Western modernity, but by going through and beyond it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kyoto School] Reference

The inevitable unavoidability of reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

Let us work with the idea of unavoidability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Compatibilism] Reference

Keeping death's unavoidability in mind A.) gets you used to it and B.) makes you that much more careful about your everyday actions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Atheism] Reference

What do you make of this comment mad by Gordon Brown's spokesman following Dr Rowan Williams remarks on the unavoidability of Sharia Law in parts of the UK - "The spokesman also said:" There are instances where government has made changes - for example on stamp duty - but the general position is that Sharia cannot be used as justification for committing breaches of English law nor can its principles be used in civil courts. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference