Sentence examples for to avoid duty from inspiring English sources

As a junior officer he transferred to the 41st Regiment soon after to avoid duty in the East Indies, and in June 1789 transferred again, to the 12th (Prince of Wales's) Light Dragoons cavalry regiment.

The bribes went to extend drilling contracts for offshore rigs in Venezuela, to settle a customs dispute in India and to avoid duties on drilling equipment in Mexico.

Since the colonial era, contraband trade has been significant in Panama among those wishing to avoid duties or other government controls.

Father Fay learned he had prostate cancer, but Ms. Patafio and other parishioners said he cited problems from the cancer to avoid duties he disliked.

Much of the money is widely thought to have come from Russian trading companies that were trying to avoid duties and taxes or from rich Russians, many of whom have fled to Switzerland after the Soviet Union collapsed, to avoid taxation.

The best offer so far is that, maybe, western companies will be allowed to avoid duties if they donate the goods in question to charities (including those favoured by the government, of course).

The final written records of her existence note that she was used as a watch vessel to spy on coastal smugglers using backwaters to avoid duties on lace, tobacco, brandy, and other goods from the continent.

He e-mailed asking me to resend it with papers claiming a lower value to help him avoid duty fees.

The charge of desertion requires that a soldier have left his place of duty without permission to avoid hazardous duty.

Abel also managed to avoid combat duty late in the war.

"The penalty for desertion with intent to avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important service is five years' confinement.