Sentence examples for to avoid handing over from inspiring English sources

But it is usually a bad sign when you annoy your customers so much that they are prepared to change their name to avoid handing over their cash.

The to-do list keeps growing so I stay an extra hour to avoid handing over too many jobs to the evening on-call team.

Many people suspect that the occupiers are deliberately keeping the country in a state of disorder and chaos, so they can use it as an excuse to avoid handing over power to an Iraqi government.

Citing a history of rigged elections in Jordan that have produced toothless legislatures, many government critics have dismissed Wednesday's polling as a cosmetic and desperate effort by an absolute monarch to avoid handing over power.

The former White House counsel, Bernard Nussbaum, tried to invoke executive privilege to avoid handing over some of Foster's papers; but these were private presidential papers, such as tax returns, and therefore not covered by the privilege.

WH Smith faced criticism as the company refused to back down over its controversial decision to demand boarding passes from airport passengers to avoid handing over VAT to the taxman.

The investigation reveals that large corporations are creating elaborate structures to move profits through subsidiaries to offshore centres such as the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands, to avoid handing money over to tax collectors in the countries where their goods are produced, and in those where they are consumed.

Mr Dunn said the college had not had any discussions with the PSNI about the tapes - but it had done everything in its power to avoid handing them over.

To avoid handing their daughter over, the Pilhar family fled to Spain, but after seven weeks travelling round Europe – in which time Olivia's tumour had swelled to the size of a football – they gave in and returned to Austria.

This is something of a nonsense sentiment – if the children are at stake, shouldn't we be more cynical, to avoid handing their lives over to someone who works in nice-sounding phrases but might have – purely hypothetically – helped cause the deaths of thousands of actual children in Iraq and Libya and Syria?

Toby Moses Germany v Scotland, Sunday 7.45pm To avoid handing their illegal haul of alcohol over to the police, Homer – playing the role of the beer baron – and Bart – his able assistant – take a detour through a cemetery.