Sentence examples for escape the authorities from inspiring English sources

At that time, gambling was illegal, and the game he set up had to float from one high-toned address to another to escape the authorities.

To prevent the military from developing close relations with the locals and possibly helping them escape, the authorities began to rotate officials more frequently.

Mr. Nunez tried to convince an investigator who approached him that he was a police officer, and then sprayed the investigator with pepper spray to try to escape, the authorities said.

On their picaresque quest, they encounter eccentrics with classical epic parallels, escape the authorities several times, stumble into a Ku Klux Klan rally, win Everett his wife back and form a hit bluegrass band called the Soggy Bottom Boys.

From a plaque on her cello case, Sophie believes that her mother lives in Paris, so they decide to travel to France to escape the authorities who want to take Sophie away from Charles.

The teenager claims to have fled across the river bordering China when it was frozen in early spring, to escape the authorities, who had begun rounding up homeless people in its northern districts before opening them up to tourism.

He will not, he says, be intimidated into letting up the police raids on drug-runners: "no space must escape the authority of the law .Mr Sarkozy made his name as a crime-busting interior minister.

It seemed to gall them that a director, a mere employee — and one who is lavishly paid and fêted — should presume to escape the authority of their boss, should outmaneuver the producers for control.

Additional factors in the earliest stages of emigration included crop failures, the lack of industrial jobs in urban Sweden, and for some the wish to escape the authority of an established state church.

He escapes the authorities, that much we know, and he changes his face and name, that much we know.

The cousin, whose name was not released by the police, outran the gunmen and escaped, the authorities said.