Sentence examples for are sidestepped from inspiring English sources

Wider questions about American foreign policy, or how ordinary Afghanis and Iraqis felt about being invaded, are sidestepped in favour of heat-of-the-battle immediacy.

"If in actions and in words — as in today's incendiary speech by Mr. Samaras — the government partners are sidestepped, then the government's cohesion is at risk," the party said in a statement.

Hugh is thinking along similar lines, because, after his polite emailed requests for on-camera interviews are sidestepped and declined, he trundles to Nestlé HQ with a traffic light on wheels; maybe that will make the company listen.

The copyright difficulties he encountered on his previous film are sidestepped by a cinema history first: the practical, if inelegant, innovation of placing the studio trademark in the film itself.

Even among the gazebos and tranquility of the Walter Reed campus in upper Northwest Washington, manhole covers are sidestepped for fear of bombs and rooftops are scanned for snipers.

Crate and Barrel is a legacy brand where traditions often embrace innovation… and where the dangers of irrelevance are sidestepped by attentive listening to the customer.

Yet companies are sidestepping the law.

Some unicorns are sidestepping the unpredictability altogether.

Some acts are sidestepping the older pop machinery.

"But the authorities are sidestepping the issue, preferring to quietly close the brothels on pretexts," she said.

Both are sidestepping the question.