Sentence examples for attempted to get around from inspiring English sources

Of course, leaders have often attempted to get around even these rules, often by changing the constitution or manipulating election results.

(A day earlier, the paper had attempted to get around the tacit domestic ban on their publication by commissioning a picture editor and a twenty-one-year-old intern to strip down and perform a dramatic reënactment).

Payments made to consultants through limited companies also exposes another issue: the rather crude working of the recruitment freeze introduced by the government in 2010, which departments have attempted to get around.

The DMCA attempted to get around this by setting up a notice process whereby content owners can tell a Web site to take down offending material.

He was frustrated by cracks in the crystals, and attempted to get around the problem by dissolving them in liquid.

It attempted to get around the no-sale agreement with IFREMER by charging the new owners a $25 "fee" to act as "conservators", in order to claim that the coal lumps had not actually been sold.

Some users are attempting to get around the ban by sending spoilers in private messages.

Christos Tsiolkas attempts to get around the short story's perennial popularity problem with lashings of salacious detail.

Mercedes was not attempting to get around the lemon law in that case, a Mercedes spokeswoman, Donna Boland, wrote in an e-mail.

The Times reports that the school will attempt to get around the legal objections by bussing pupils and staff between the two sites on a weekly basis.

Delphi and Mr. Rosenkranz, it seems, were attempting to get around this provision in this deal by amending the company's charter to eliminate these requirements and making the sale conditional on shareholder approval of this amendment.