Sentence examples for evading the question of from inspiring English sources

This is tantamount to evading the question of whether Serbia's government thinks there should be a military intervention.

"I do it my way, and so far it's been very successful," she said, while evading the question of her exact age ("not yet 50").

Besides evading the question of his children's race and insisting that he'd had only a couple of plastic surgeries, Jackson again said that there was nothing wrong with his habit of sharing his bed with children.

Note the shifting logic: from evading the question of what kind of poetry is being published to the number of manuscripts handled by screeners to diversity of judges by politically correct criteria!

When he agreed to take the job as part of the internal round of musical chairs in which Giles Clarke became the ECB's first president, Graves probably did not expect to spend his first day evading the questions of a dogged BBC reporter at Lord's.

Perhaps true, but no honest discussion of pardons or early release can evade the question of political risk.

There is little point in writing a will that evades the question of who ends up with what.

By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, April 8 , 1944P. 75 LETTER FROM LONDON about: British disappointed in Winston Churchill's speech; Churchill demanding a vote of confidence to evade the question of pay for male and female teachers; business once more flourishing as blitzes temporarily die down; drought.... View Article By Miranda Carter By Amos Barshad By Jia Tolentino By Doreen St. Félix.

By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, April 8 , 1944P. 75 LETTER FROM LONDON about: British disappointed in Winston Churchill's speech; Churchill demanding a vote of confidence to evade the question of pay for male and female teachers; business once more flourishing as blitzes temporarily die down; drought.... View Article By Rivka Galchen By Jia Tolentino By Zoë Heller By Malcolm Gladwell.

Turning to the next stages of the war against terrorism, Mr. Bush acknowledged that some countries believed to harbor Qaeda terrorists had not joined the effort to wipe them out, but he evaded the question of whether he was willing to send forces beyond Afghanistan, to countries where the United States was clearly not invited.

You seem to evade the question of whether your civic duty to inform readers of continuing criminal investigations creates an inherent conflict of interest with what I hope you have now learned is your corresponding duty not to implicate individuals in "infamous crimes," as characterized by the Fifth Amendment, even before they are indicted, let alone convicted.