Sentence examples for evade their duties from inspiring English sources

When our elected representatives take an oath of office they solemnly swear to support the Constitution, to telling the truth, to bear true faith and allegiance, and not to evade their duties (Oath for Congress, 1884).

Among other things, it would create a loophole for military chaplains to evade their duty to minister to all soldiers seeking spiritual guidance while in service to their country.

While Google Earth was originally intended to help people find their way around, Riverhead is one of the first incidences of what will inevitably be many more cases of the tool being used by local and national governments to catch people evading their duties as citizens, unless Google somehow intervenes.

It was an attempt to evade their obligation.

The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions.

She and the other European leaders cannot evade their duty toward their respective electorates, which loathe the idea of picking up the tab for an expensive Greek haircut.

That includes John DiCicco, of America's Justice Department, who pointed to the millions of Americans losing their jobs, homes and health care while "more than 50,000 of the wealthiest among us have actively sought to evade their civic and legal duty to pay taxes".

"In order to give the outward appearance of being poor, they have ostentatiously closed the church on weekdays, thus evading their primary duty of maintaining a house of worship on a continuing basis".

The bombers were forced to evade their fire.

Such factors may have made it easier for parties to evade their responsibilities.

Other lawmakers had already accused Dr. Hamburg of evading their questions.