Sentence examples for were evaded from inspiring English sources

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were evaded

verb

To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument.

  • The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. — Richard Chenevix Trench.

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Further questions were evaded.

Oil export sanctions were evaded with increasing success.

Most of these regulations were evaded by corruption and bribery.

And it was crystal clear that controls either did not exist, or were evaded, at WorldCom and Enron.

(Similar laws in Paris were evaded by unlicensed actors who played in forains, the illegal theatres of the fairgrounds).

President Obama has refused to open a full investigation of the many laws that were evaded, twisted or broken — pointlessly and destructively — under Mr. Bush.

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Punctiliously, he was going after the rich who were evading taxes.

But until recently, many Dutch farmers were evading the law, which was costing the country millions in EU fines.

HSBC denies that all these account holders were evading tax.

It's not as though they were evading the truth.

It cannot be evaded any more".

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