(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.
Pursuer
Definition:
(n.) One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake.
(n.) A plaintiff; a prosecutor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The city is formed by a succession of those restless pursuers of greatness, sure of their own minds, who use its fluid historical momentum and the revolutionary intention lingering in the atmosphere to establish their own position and personality.
(2) And the abiding image of this game will be of Argentina's No10 scampering past opponents like the fastest kid at school evading his pursuers in a game of tag; somehow being faster with the ball than without it.
(3) In catathymic mania, hatred is projected on to the "pursuer".
(4) He then fled south before crashing into a semi as he tried to elude his pursuers.
(5) He was wounded and came close to being captured several times, but evaded his pursuers.
(6) His pursuer, George Zimmerman , immediately targeted him as a potential criminal, "reporting" to a police dispatcher: "This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something … these assholes they always get away."
(7) Udall, a Colorado Democrat and one of the CIA’s leading pursuers on the committee, appeared to reference that surreptitious spying on Congress, which Udall said undermined democratic principles.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 8.18pm BST They begin the second last lap, with the three upstarts still in front, and all of the main sprinters starting to position themselves at the front of the pursuers.
(9) He would not give himself up to his pursuers like Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi declared in radio addresses, nor would he flee, like Tunisia's ousted president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the first "victim" of the Arab spring.
(10) The endpoint is the fusion between them, which can occur in 2 modes: either by the leading cell of the pursuer catching up with the target (pursuer-mediated fusion, or PMF) or by the target running into the preformed side of the pursuer (target-mediated fusion, or TMF).
(11) The causal specifications are the step size, the speed of the pursuer, the speed of the target, the restoration constant, and the initial direction of the pursuer; the outcome variables are the number of steps to fusion and the mode of fusion.
(12) Only the most spectacular of collapses, parlayed with the most unlikely bursts of success for a gaggle of flawed pursuers, would prevent it.
(13) The more the pursuer pursues, the more the distancer distances (or masturbates), and vice versa.
(14) It is cast in terms of the geometry of the pursuit of a linearly moving target by the growth of a chain of cells in the same plane, the pursuer, which at each step adjusts its direction of growth towards the current position of the target.
(15) Deaf for most of his Westminster career, he was an inspiration to people with disabilities, a battler on their behalf and a relentless pursuer of justice for underdog causes.
(16) Its primordial construct is a chain of cells (termed a "pursuer") growing under the influence of a signal towards a fixed structure termed a "target."
(17) Pamela, scandalised, offered a mock punch and insisted that she was the pursued, not the pursuer.)
(18) If the speed of the pursuer is defined as unity, r is also the ratio of the speeds.
(19) The major interventions included coaching the co-alcoholic to differentiate a self in the family system, to modify the habitual overfunctioner and pursuer roles, to bridge cutoffs, and to de-triangle oneself as the anxiety and tension rise in the family system.
(20) A key quantity is r, the speed of the target expressed as a fraction of that of the pursuer.