Sentence examples for to prevarication from inspiring English sources

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to prevarication

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Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.

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Anything less and its board would look as if it is addicted to prevarication.

I have sat down with ministers and senior Israeli politicians and urged peaceful negotiations and a proportionate response to prevarication, and I thought that they were listening.

Second, share prices have been increasing all year in response to prevarication by the US central bank, which has struggled to raise interest rates despite signalling a willingness to do so.

Also, the collection of sexual habits might possibly be more subject to prevarication biases compared with other individual characteristics.

Such self-reported data could be subjected to prevarication, especially for the date of such events as retreatment, extraction, or incidence of pain.

This variable could be interpreted as a proxy for the current number of sexual partners and less subject to prevarication or recall biases.

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Some attribute the recent rise of the leftwing New Democratic party under leader Tom Mulcair to its vow to do that – and the coincidental fall in the polls of the Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau, to his prevarication.

EUROPEAN UNION delegates, investigating Iran's dismal human-rights record, were treated to decorous prevarication in Tehran this week.

As it enters the election season, San Francisco finds itself with a clutch of political figures who, like Mr. Mirkarimi, seem determined to turn prevarication into a comical art form.

Rhône's investment would have gone straight to the bank and RBS is unlikely to allow prevarications from Hicks and Gillett beyond July, by which time the current debts must be refinanced.

Instead, even before Joe Biden spoke out, he had made a personal and political decision to take this issue off the table, to avoid charges of prevarication and to deprive critics and the press of a battering ram charging hypocrisy or inconsistency.

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