Sentence examples for escaping capture from inspiring English sources

Ahead lay Beckett's work for the French Resistance, which he dismissed as "boy-scout stuff," but which saw him barely escaping capture by the Gestapo when his cell of resisters was betrayed, and which later earned him the Croix de Guerre.

Authorities say Chapo fled to Mazatlán five days before, after narrowly escaping capture at one of his safe houses in Culiacán by fleeing into a tunnel below a bathtub that led into the city's rainwater drains and, eventually, a getaway car.

Partly with the help of a non-Jewish friend, Tineke Buchter, Dr. Pais hid in a series of houses in the city, narrowly escaping capture at one point as he crouched in an attic behind a secret panel that would not close properly.

The addition of a cable restraint to the front of the Macabee may be sufficient to keep larger individuals from escaping capture, thereby allowing trappers to more effectively use this common trap.

A variety of fish behaviors can cause capture probability to vary across individuals or over time, such as dominance hierarchies, escaping capture or persistent individual differences in capture probability due to activity or aggression; yet knowing exactly which behaviors may affect capture probability is generally unknown.

Only just escaping capture, Blücher crossed the forest of Vertus and took up positions at Étoges with Prince Urusov's division, which had been left there in reserve.

Bienenfeld barely escaped capture during the Occupation; her grandfather and an aunt died in the camps.

There Thomas Jefferson, then the governor of Virginia, barely escaped capture by Tarleton's men.

But five were elsewhere in the embassy compound and escaped capture.

Only his deputy, Izzat al-Douri, escaped capture and punishment in a war-crimes trial.

Despite a huge manhunt and a $25m reward, he has escaped capture.