Troops spotted the correct truck "minutes later" but the occupants fled, evading capture, the statement said.
Well, for starters, his statement evades the issue of recusal.
Topical though it seeks to be, Shingle Street evades mere fashion statement.
"Regrettably, it appears that the platforms may have misrepresented or evaded in some of their statements to Congress," the report says, noting what it calls one false claim that specific population groups were not targeted by the influence operation and another that the campaign did not seek to discourage voting.
Saudi officials found in his statements an opportunity to evade the question whenever the Western media raised the issue.
Evading and retreating from direct or forthright statements or positions, as Merriam and Webster aptly put it.
City officials, who testified extensively before the grand jury, said it was impossible to know how many of the city's one million property owners were evading taxes by filing false income and expense statements with the Finance Department or the Tax Commission.
"I am not a criminal but I seem to find myself frequently in criminal company" is a statement that evades more questions than it answers.
He had a gift for American-style sound-bite politics and combined charisma with personal charm; if his views were contradictory, as they quite often were, he simply evaded the critics by instantly moderating or clarifying his statements.
It was avoiding tax, not evading it, that Mr Osborne tackled in the Autumn Statement.
Indeed, Mitt has been evading and retreating from just about any direct or forthright statements or positions during his entire campaign.
