(v. t.) To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart.
Example Sentences:
(1) While Elop has critics who say he did not fix Nokia or much of anything else in his long career in tech, others are likely to point to a pedigree that would also make him the favorite here.
(2) Elop denies it is in talks about a takeover by Microsoft .
(3) Elop says Nokia is considering them, and looking into platform options such as Windows 8 , Windows RT – as used on the Microsoft Surface – and even Android.
(4) The marketing department will now report directly to Elop, and a management reshuffle has seen key staff replaced and US executive Chris Weber – who, like Elop, previously worked for Microsoft – promoted to run sales and marketing.
(5) Nokia's chief executive, Stephen Elop, said : "This settlement ... enables us to focus on further licensing opportunities in the mobile communications market."
(6) Stephen Elop is the odds-on favourite to become Microsoft's next CEO ( see 8.51am ), but do you think he's got what it takes to replace Steve Ballmer and take the company forward?
(7) For example, we rejected the traditional wedding day and we eloped to Las Vegas when our son, Conrad, was three.
(8) Claire McComb, spokesperson for the East London Out Project (ELOP), a gay and lesbian outreach organisation, says: "Homophobia is equivalent to racism, sexism, ageism, sizeism and prejudice against disability, yet this is often disregarded in favour of conflicting personal values.
(9) Vote here: Should Stephen Elop take over at Microsoft?
(10) Elop managed to make Nokia actually sell *less* phones, quite a feat given how the smartphone market exploded.
(11) Nevertheless, Elop believes Nokia's downsizing and outplacement programmes are a good thing for Finland.
(12) Their 18-year relationship made a gut-wrenching but fascinating public story, which began with romantic passion, high hopes and an elopement to Spain.
(13) "Yes, you can call it [Android] open source but in practicality, you're getting more and more constrained on what's possible in that environment," Elop says.
(14) This is the challenge Elop, and Nokia more generally, faces – a smartphone market where the Lumia is in a tiny minority.
(15) Nokia's future as an independent company is hanging in the balance and Microsoft could be forced to rescue the business if chief executive Stephen Elop cannot resuscitate the group's smartphone business by the end of the year, analysts have warned.
(16) Asked why his strategy had not yet produced results, Elop said there was "frustration" because so few consumers were aware of Nokia's new products: "We have truly great products but aren't getting the traction that we would prefer."
(17) Here's a selection on the Microsoft-Nokia deal: os2baba 03 September 2013 8:28am If ever there was a Trojan horse... Stephen Elop sure fits the bill.
(18) "Stephen Elop is running out of time," said Francisco Jeronimo at telecoms research firm IDC.
(19) The two companies announced the outline for the deal in London in February, after Elop had courted both Google and Microsoft, choosing between the Android mobile operating system – now the world's most-used on smartphones – and Windows Phone, which was only introduced in October 2010 and has had a lukewarm reception from customers.
(20) Ram had married but his wife – a woman who had three children when she effectively eloped with him – died of an illness without bearing him a child of his own.
Elude
Definition:
(v. t.) To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bill allows Obama to claim another major piece of legislation to put alongside the economic stimulus bill passed last year, which stands comparison with Roosevelt's New Deal, and the healthcare bill earlier this year, which achieved a goal that had eluded previous presidents.
(2) The decision prompted Human Rights Watch to warn that he should not be allowed "to elude serious legal proceedings against him".
(3) Whether these two sera specifically affect sperm-zona pellucida binding or non-specifically affect the normal progression of capacitation remains to be eludicated.
(4) When Kristine Minde eluded Claire Rafferty at the far post she was well placed to meet Solveig Gulbrandsen’s long diagonal ball.
(5) This was a distinction that eluded the broadcaster Alan Jones on Wednesday when he was accused by an Abbott government minister of running a “racist” scare campaign about foreign ownership of Australian farmland.
(6) Such anomalous conditions occurring either alone or in combination elude diagnosis and pose problems for management.
(7) It is suggested that all patients suffering from the K-T syndrome should be examined by Doppler ultrasound in the hope that microfistulas which elude radiodiagnostic techniques might be detected and treated surgically.
(8) This disease eludes all known forms of therapy and results in edentulousness after only a few years.
(9) The phenomenon of antigenic shifts may make it possible for the bacteria to elude antibodies.
(10) The GABA-receptor at the Ascaris muscle cell which mediates a membrane hyperpolarization and muscle relaxation has eluded classification.
(11) Finally, the article demonstrates practical and efficient methods of cooperation between neurologists and the referring chiropractic physician that has eluded these professions for almost a century.
(12) It was the year when we saw predators for who they really are, even if justice eludes them.
(13) The pros and cons of the various B-scan modes are discussed, and the preferences of the combination of the linear scan and the arc scan is eludicated with experimental results.
(14) Could you have imagined at the start of your career that a league title would elude you?
(15) 9.32pm GMT 79 mins: A long Houston ball eludes Driver.
(16) The one major medal Pirlo lacks for club or country has eluded him.
(17) Nonetheless, she has dealt with these online critics with the kind of grace that eludes people older and allegedly more rational than her (well, HELLO there, Richard Dawkins!)
(18) Even classic tragedy on the Oscar Wilde scale eluded him.
(19) His inswinging ball eluded Winston Reid at the front post but found Antonio, whose stooping header came off his marker Deeney and past the bewildered Heurelho Gomes.
(20) Accordingly a number of valentines, which had been sent this year to country postmasters, at a distance from the place where they were written, with a request that they might be posted at those remote offices, have been sent to the Dead-letter office , and thence to the parties for whom they were destined, accompanied with a statement showing where the valentines were written, and the means that had been taken to elude detection.