(v. t.) To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
Example Sentences:
(1) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
(2) To circumvent the restriction of having to analyze relatively short PCR fragments, restriction endonucleases were used to cleave a longer PCR product and the mixture of fragments was analyzed directly in SSCP gel electrophoresis.
(3) In order to circumvent the inhibitory reaction potentially occurring in cell-free systems, R-5020-binding studies additionally were performed in cell suspension.
(4) To circumvent this problem, 11 available brands of micropore filters (five prepacked and six to be packed and autoclaved) were investigated with the aim of finding the least toxic product.
(5) The detection of antigen in samples of urine collected serially may circumvent this problem in the future.
(6) This article describes one way of circumventing these disadvantages.
(7) The transplantation of a reduced liver was conceived to circumvent this problem.
(8) The data provide strong indications that one critical role of T-cell participation in humoral responses to antigens is to circumvent the development of a tolerogenic signal that, in the absence of such T-cell function, might otherwise ensue after binding of the antigenic determinants by specific precursor B lymphocytes.
(9) To circumvent this problem a general assay for the turn-off reaction has now been developed.
(10) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
(11) This method provides an improvement in sensitivity over extant spectrophotometric methods and circumvents limitations of assays using radioactive pyruvate.
(12) These findings indicate alternative metabolic pathways may be operational in newborn rat brain enabling it to circumvent major blockage in thiamine-dependent reactions.
(13) Similarly, many pitfalls may be circumvented by the simple expedient of close collaboration between urologist and radiologist, and by the reluctance of either to accept urography that is suboptimal by current standards.
(14) In contrast, these deletions do not circumvent aerobic repression of the nar operon (encoding the anaerobic respiratory enzyme nitrate reductase) under the control of the pleiotropic fnr gene product.
(15) In many samples, dynamical scattering and other non-linear effects limit the information in the image, but this limit can be circumvented by working in very thin areas of the specimen.
(16) Under "strong" antigen stimulation the IgE blockade is circumvented, presumably via the production of excessive amounts of interleukin-4 (IL-4).
(17) The present findings suggest the utility of CPIB as a selective agent to circumvent ADR resistance and to reduce host toxicity due to the drug.
(18) As the Electronic Frontier Foundation has noted , “this is a recipe for disaster,” and it is being done by circumventing the normal democratic process.
(19) A method was developed which circumvents the problems of the anticomplementary properties of agar media and the requirement of some L-phase variants for concentrations of salt that inhibit complement.
(20) To circumvent this complication, the VCG was reconstructed from the simultaneously recorded ECG leads.
Dodge
Definition:
(v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
(v. i.) To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
(v. t.) To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
(v. t.) Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.
(v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
(n.) The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Don was racing the Dodge through the Bonneville Salt Flats , where Gary Gabelich had just (on 23 October) broken the land-speed record.
(2) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
(3) Eric King, deputy director of PI, said: "More than a year after Snowden, the British government continues to dodge the question of just how integrated the operations of GCHQ and NSA truly are.
(4) End diastolic and systolic volume and ejection fractions were calculated by two methods (Ahlberg and Dodge).
(5) The effects of electroconvulsive shock (ECS) on spatial memory first reported by Shavalia, Dodge, and Beatty (1981, Behavioral and Neural Biology, 31, 261-273) were systematically replicated in two experiments.
(6) But another worry, says Dodge, is that the price of Iraq's freedom will turn out to be an authoritarian political system.
(7) We have so much work to do to bridge the gulf and, at the moment, the sector finds it easier to dodge the issue than tackle it head on."
(8) "This would require them to prove that YouView is dominant, which could be tricky, given the state of the market," said Becket McGrath, a partner at law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge.
(9) The increase in electricity prices over the past 12 months is the lowest since September 2007, and taking away the fourth quarter, affected by the introduction of the carbon price, the trend is clearly towards lower rises in the future: The Liberal party, by virtue of being in opposition from 2007 to 2013, dodged the big bullet of electricity prices.
(10) The candidate was crushed with just 4.9% of the vote and was forced to dodge Sydney Leathers, a woman who said she had received sexual messages from him, while giving his concession speech.
(11) We all have plenty to fear | Jonathan Freedland Read more On Tuesday, the Times headlined its editorial about the election “Tough Choice”, as if the decision between a woman who used the wrong email server and a racist, sexist, tax-dodging bully wasn’t, in fact, the easiest choice in the world.
(12) "But we will not tolerate abuse of the system by people trying to dodge their tax obligations."
(13) You have somebody that’s gonna run this country right, and I would be willing to bet – because I think this is one of the great cities, one of the most beautiful cities in the world – and you have a great leader now, you have a great president, you have a tough president.” He had dodged and also praised his host.
(14) David Cameron has dodged an imminent revolt by 60 Tory backbenchers over the lifting of border controls on Bulgarians and Romanians, as the government revealed that the immigration bill would be delayed until the new year.
(15) On saying this, I don’t close my eyes to the endemic corruption and tax-dodging in Greece (nor indeed, does the outsiders’ movement Syriza, which came to power campaigning against just these vices).
(16) "This depressing morning has now got me questioning my pitiful existence," sobs James Dodge.
(17) This guy can buy silence, but that isn't offered to most people who are caught fare dodging."
(18) "Tax dodging is not easily defeated, so companies should be required to report additional information like sales volumes, assets and profits to put their payments into context.
(19) Aims In 2013 our campaign achieved commitments from the UK government at the G8 for action on tax dodging .
(20) Full-blooded hypothecation would in theory dodge some of these weaknesses.