What's the difference between evade and finesse?

Evade


Definition:

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
  • (v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
  • (2) Trypanosoma brucei) has the ability to express on its cell surface a repertoire of variant surface glycoproteins (VSGs) and in so doing, evades the immune response of the host (antigenic variation).
  • (3) "For tax evaders, she should turn to Pasok and New Democracy to explain to her why they haven't touched the big money and have been chasing the simple worker for two years."
  • (4) "It's also very hard to evade a question that comes from a town hall person," she said during a discussion of the format and how the candidates will respond.
  • (5) But pollsters said that even if the president's worst failing was to have been naively taken in, being hoodwinked by a tax-evader he appointed to one of the country's most important jobs would be hugely damaging for his presidential standing and authority.
  • (6) In a submission to a House of Lords EU subcommittee , it said: "Most of the stakeholders consulted believe that opting out of this and relying on alternative arrangements would result in fewer extraditions, longer delays, higher costs, more offenders evading justice and increased risk to public safety."
  • (7) He cut in and provided a pass for Sneijder, whose shot squirmed wide off Rodríguez; he then clipped a ball in that just evaded Sneijder; and soon after that he appealed for another penalty.
  • (8) The model also lends itself to studies of the immunologic interrelationships between innate and acquired resistance to infection with schistosomes, as well as the mechanisms by which these parasites evade the host immune response.
  • (9) Here's Messi playing in Adriano, but his cross evades Villa in the middle.
  • (10) According to unedited training videos seen by Sky News captured from an Isis trainer by the remnants of the Free Syrian Army, an research and development team may have produced fully working remote-controlled cars to act as mobile bombs, which they have fitted with mannequins rigged to give off heat to suggest they are human and so to evade bomb-scanning machines.
  • (11) As long as the requirements of the law are there, if you try to evade arrest, refuse arrest... and you put up a good fight or resist violently, I will say: ‘Kill them’.” Duterte also vowed to introduce a 2am curfew on drinking in public places, and ban children from walking on the streets alone late at night.
  • (12) The authors found, almost as an aside to their central examination of tax evasion, that the occupations represented in parliament "are very much those that evade tax, even beyond lawyers".
  • (13) He also said tax evaders using Liechtenstein had been offered "amnesty-lite" deals.
  • (14) His deputy, Dokuchayev, is believed to be a well-known Russian hacker who went by the nickname Forb, and began working for the FSB some years ago to evade jail for his hacking activities.
  • (15) Two ways to alter the perception that health professionals evade or ignore the problem are discussed.
  • (16) But the next real opportunity would fall to USA , Jozy Altidore running onto an Fabian Johnson cross that had evaded its intended target, Michael Bradley, in the middle of the box.
  • (17) Her worries were confirmed hours later, when Manuel Delgado, another lawyer emerged from the courtroom during a recess and declared "the princess came very prepared to evade any questions".
  • (18) The present study was performed to determine whether the propensity of the type b organism to cause invasive infections is due to a unique ability to evade complement-mediated host defenses.
  • (19) The prosecution in the trial had alleged that the two men had evaded tax on payments totalling £189,000 that were made by Mandaric into Redknapp's offshore bank account while the two men were at Portsmouth football club.
  • (20) could be due to a Leishmania-induced mechanism by means of which this organism may evade the immune response.

Finesse


Definition:

  • (a.) Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.
  • (a.) The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2.
  • (v. i.) To use artifice or stratagem.
  • (v. i.) To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
  • (2) Today, however, artists are using them with so much confidence and finesse that the best colored pencil drawings can hold their own with those of any other technique.
  • (3) He may feel on the margins but this was a reminder that the Spaniard remains a player of sumptuous talent, vision and finesse.
  • (4) If something similar had happened in Borgen, Nyborg would have somehow finessed seeming at once a woman of the people and a major international figure.
  • (5) Adaptic and Profile showed the most amounts of wear, followed by Finesse, Miradapt, and Isopast.
  • (6) She comes across as vapid and totally uncouth without a bit of finesse about her.
  • (7) Earthworks were started in late 2011, while the route was still being finessed, and continued despite the difficulties caused by torrential rain that has fallen in the region over the last year.
  • (8) What the presentation lacked in finesse, the dish made up for in flavour.
  • (9) Fat chicks deserve that, too.’” I probably would have finessed it a bit if I’d been sober, but way to lean in, bossy, drunk past-Lindy!
  • (10) The architects of the Chiang Mai Initiative attempted to finesse the problem by requiring countries that draw more than 30% of their swaps to negotiate a program with the IMF.
  • (11) However, increasingly prominent neo-cons within the administration, led by National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, are exploiting the circumstances to maneuver Trump into a position where he is pressured into green lighting a full scale ground war, an attack on Damascus and a confrontation with Russia.” There Is No Trump Doctrine, And That’s Okay Publication: Commentary Author: Noah Rothman has long been this column’s favourite neoconservative Why you should read it: Rothman makes an effort to finesse the problem that everyone might want to claim Trump faces: Trump has no clear foreign policy doctrine.
  • (12) The former culture minister Jack Lang saluted his "vital energy"; the Socialist leader, Martine Aubry, hailed his "great finesse".
  • (13) With nothing left to the imagination and nowhere to hide, it's not surprising that users finesse their profiles a little.
  • (14) These are: Adaptic, Concise, Miradapt, Degufill and Finesse.
  • (15) However, there is still some finessing to do, and only two major energy providers have signed up.
  • (16) The quasi-farcical question of British involvement in Operation Bluestar (as Mark Tully pointed out , had the SAS really been involved, it's likely the consequent destruction would have been achieved with considerable finesse) is secondary to the horror that won't go away.
  • (17) There is a certain quiet finesse to my 15-hour shredded brisket sandwich, with cheese, onions and coleslaw.
  • (18) It's not a situation where I'm finessing every tiny detail.
  • (19) However, Abramovich finessed his contact with Kerimov and, to Tottenham's fury, Willian was on his way to Stamford Bridge, albeit for a slightly higher price.
  • (20) The undoubted political commitment to the euro means that there are now calls for a fast-track approach to full political union, but this means repeating the top-down approach used for monetary union and – at a time when the markets are talking about a Greek exit within weeks or months – would take years to finesse.