Sentence examples for first dodged from inspiring English sources

Asked at a Capitol Hill news conference about the future of his speakership in light of the collapse of his plan, Boehner at first dodged, saying a deal on spending needs to be reached.

Mr. Romney at first dodged the question, then said, "I don't support any program he's describing".

Whichever gender we may be, we have to be in love with Natasha ourselves, because she is life, about whose fleeting nature Tolstoy had been preoccupied since he first dodged bullets among the bastions at Sebastopol.

It says something about Cruz, for instance, that he first dodged and then attacked the question, saying that liberals were trying to "twist the question of marriage" into a matter of "emotions and personalities" — something presumably distant from the institution.

When Wolf Blitzer, another of the moderators, asked if he would flatten Raqqa — ISIS's stronghold in Syria but also a city where hundreds of thousands of people live — Cruz first dodged the question and then said that "the object isn't to level a city.

When asked to name his favorite Marvel superhero at a campaign event in Las Vegas Wednesday, Bush at first dodged the question and didn't actually name one.

He turned his head at the last second and dodged paralysis by inches, crashing into the steel pole with his neck.

However, it should still pass (by a simple majority) in December, before the new, Democrat-controlled Congress takes over next year.Mr Bush is the second American president to visit Vietnam since the fall of Saigon and the second to have dodged fighting in the war.

Their relationship has been hiding in plain sight ever since they met on set of the first Amazing Spider-Man film and they've both previously dodged questions on the subject whenever it has come up.

"Let me start by saying David Gauke was saying that tax dodging is wrong and I personally haven't dodged tax.

First in his denials of any priestly wrongdoing, later in his acknowledgment of having dodged protesters and made errors in judgment, eventually in his being chased by the press as if he were O. J. Simpson, he embodies church authority during the course of this crisis.