Short and campy little Nowruz messages that intricately side step the issues with broad smiles won't do.
The manager Martin O'Neill did his best to side-step the issue at his pre-match press conference on Saturday, and was equally unforthcoming after the game as he turned his attention to this weekend's vital Euro 2016 qualifier against Scotland.
As for his own future as manager, which has been in question, O'Neill neatly side-stepped the issue, choosing instead to focus on the team's position near the foot of the Premier League table.
And how do you plan to address it?" "It's about training," Mr Walker began, before he completely side-stepped the issue of race, failing to mention black Americans in the fifty-second spot he was allotted.
During a state visit in 2005 by Jiang's successor Hu Jintao, the prince carefully side-stepped the issue by being out of the country on a tour of the US on the night of the official dinner.
It's unclear at this stage what the law will consider reasonable, and the lack of clarity on this point appears intentional — as a way for the government to side-step the issue of end-to-end encryption without explicitly stating whether the technology effectively offers a workaround to the legislation or not.
Pasteur's experimental denial of spontaneous generation as an explanation for the ultimate appearance of life led devoted materialists like Hermann von Helmholtz to side-step the issue by assuming that viable microbes had been delivered to the primitive Earth by meteorites, thus maintaining the significance of evolution (Kamminga 1982; Lazcano 2010a).
Sanders, however, since then has side-stepped the issue.
However, this too would side step the broader issue by putting a disproportionate amount of the punishment on current or incoming student-athletes.
But critics question whether the company is side stepping the knottier issues of overproduction and worker rights by emphasising materials innovation and technology – especially when recycling the mixed fibres so common in fast fashion is proving tricky.
James Sprang, the student speaker at commencement, did not side step the tuition issue.
