Sentence examples for ducking the problem from inspiring English sources

Instead of ducking the problem, the board recalibrated the scoring and announced that it would steadily broaden the areas of knowledge to be tested.

But analysts said President Mohammad Khatami's statement was disturbing, since it represented nuclear ambitions beyond Iran's civil energy needs, and accused the administration of ducking the problem from political expediency.

You can see why our leaders would rather duck the problem.

All parties, from City Hall to the Legislature, have fumbled or ducked the problem.

There are at least two easy ways to duck the problem should Congress choose to be imprudent.

Three years ago, Congress ducked the problem by simply reauthorizing the old law and giving it a fatuous new name, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006.

This is because under the 1993 reform their pensions are now indexed to prices rather than wages, which will make the retired progressively poorer relative to the working population.Mr Jospin ducked the problem with the aid of a time-honoured device: he appointed a committee to study the problem.

With the elderly protagonist Claudia, in "Moon Tiger" (written when Lively was in her early fifties), she says, "I ducked the problem … by making her a mind rather than a body — she is dying in hospital, but not much is made of that, what you know of her are her thoughts and her memories".

Members of Congress and President Bush will be politically foolish, not to mention neglectful in their duties, if they duck the problem and simply allow America's patchwork of thousands of underfinanced electoral jurisdictions to continue carrying on as if nothing had happened.

To simply say that millions of African-Americans don't vote because of apathy and indifference ducks the problem.

No, I mean that literally -- it looks and sounds like Bush is lamely ducking the entire friggin' problem, guaranteeing his legacy to future generations will be eight years of actively fighting all efforts to restrict greenhouse gas emissions -- and this speech is one more example of delay and obstruction (see here).