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The phrase "try and evade" is commonly used in spoken English, but it is considered less formal in written English.
You can use it when discussing attempts to avoid something, such as responsibility or a situation. Example: "He tried and evaded the question during the interview, hoping to avoid revealing his past mistakes."
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"Not only did Wall Street have so much freedom, but it gave commercial banks an incentive to try and evade their regulations," Mr. Frank says.
So while tax authorities in New York have arrested a few modern bootleggers, the tax premium there means that the risk/reward ratio is high enough that many smugglers will continue to try and evade the authorities and logic says they'll frequently succeed.
It appears clear from the video he continues to try and evade the officers even after the crash".
If entering the United States becomes an illegal act, banned individuals are more likely to try and evade authorities and tracking, making contact tracing nearly impossible.
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But Medicare costs are cut mainly by squeezing payments to hospitals, doctors and other health-care providers, a device that has been tried (and evaded) before.
Kirk and Bones (Karl Urban) are making a mad dash through the red fields of Nibiru trying to distract and evade the planet's primitive people — bodies baked in clay, painted faces, spears, superstitious, you know the type.
An operational security manual obtained by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point shows that members of the self-described Islamic State -- which took credit for the shootings and suicide bombings in Paris -- are using a variety of encrypted apps and services to try to evade surveillance and military intelligence agencies.
He must simultaneously try to prove his innocence and evade the police and the angry criminals who come after him.
The crowd begins to shuffle for the exits, smoothing sodden hair from foreheads; the cleaner folks at the perimeter blanch and try to evade contact with the tide.
The statement from the Homeless Services Department said, "By conducting arrests at several shelters on the same day, individuals with outstanding warrants had little time to learn of the initiative and try to evade the N.Y.P.D".
The company is also being investigated in California over its use of another software tool, known as "Greyball", and apparently designed to try to evade regulatory and law enforcement oversight.
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