Sentence examples for were circumvented from inspiring English sources
verb
To avoid or get around something; to bypass
Allfirst officials said they could not explain how their controls were circumvented.
Today one of the delights of watching "Mrs. Muir" is admiring the ways the Hollywood censors were circumvented.
Miroslav Beblavy, a Slovak parliamentarian and former state secretary, outlined several ways open bidding rules were circumvented.
As the Chinese spent more of their silver on the drug, the state imposed various bans, but these were circumvented by smugglers and eventually war.
That is, they were verbatim settings of pre-existing stage dramas, in which the whole idea of dramma per musica -- drama adapted to musical purposes -- was scrapped in the name of "truth," and problems of operatic "form" and libretto structure were circumvented.
"Normal rules were circumvented.
Some franchisees already were circumventing that timetable and selling breakfast burgers.
Barriers are circumvented.
The Berlin Wall was simply being circumvented.
By creating a national map, that process has been circumvented.
