Sentence examples for a scheme to avoid from inspiring English sources

Woody Allen's "Cassandra's Dream" (Nov. 30) stars Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell as brothers who turn to murder in a scheme to avoid financial ruin.

Closing arguments began yesterday in Federal District Court in the racketeering trial of John A. Gotti, with prosecutors saying that Mr. Gotti's claim that he quit the Gambino crime family in 1999 was no more than a scheme to avoid a long prison sentence.

The indictment alleging that Mr. Kozlowski tampered with evidence said that the document was a fraudulent bill of lading, part of a scheme to avoid paying more than $1 million in sales taxes on six paintings, which he bought last fall, by shipping empty painting crates to the company's New Hampshire headquarters.

As part of a scheme to avoid having to register as foreign agents operating on behalf of the Ukrainian government, Manafort connected Mercury Public Affairs and the Podesta Group with a "newly-formed Brussels entity called the European Centre for the Modern Ukraine," according to court filings.

He said: "It (Google) uses a concocted scheme to avoid tax.

After disclosures about the comedian Jimmy Carr using a legal scheme to avoid tax, Cameron said last year: "Some of these schemes we have seen are quite frankly morally wrong.

He was building a case that Walker and his campaign organization, Friends of Scott Walker, had carried out "a criminal scheme" to avoid doing that kind of reporting.

By turns demented and baby-faced, he captures the character's ambiguity: is this all a savvy scheme to avoid service, or is Schweik truly deranged?

But that allegation, which prosecutors said was a sophisticated scheme to avoid income taxes on nearly 800 million euros ($1.05 billion), was thrown out by the Milan court.

However the PM himself was accused of hypocrisy today after he declined to criticise Take That singer and Conservative supporter Gary Barlow, who has been accused of using a complex scheme to avoid paying millions.

Responding to the US Government's claim that Apple engages in a "sophisticated scheme" to avoid paying tax on $74 billion £496.55 billion) of revenues held overseas, Cook said: "That is total political crap.