(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.
Quash
Definition:
(n.) Same as Squash.
(v. t.) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment.
(v. t.) To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush.
(v. t.) To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion.
(v. i.) To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even before the political leaders arrived at the presidential palace, the prospect of the discussions producing a successful outcome had been quashed by the small Democratic Left party.
(2) The Court of Appeal quashed the convictions in October 1989.
(3) People don’t speak out and if they do they get quashed.
(4) With the Swedish courts last month rejecting an attempt by Assange's lawyers to quash the warrant for his arrest, Britain continuing to insist he will be arrested the instant he steps foot outside the building and the Australian refusing to budge, the situation has now reached political and legal deadlock.
(5) In one undisclosed court document in Kenya, seen by the Guardian, BAT’s lawyers demand the country’s high court “quash in its entirety” a package of anti-smoking regulations and rails against what it calls a “capricious” tax plan.
(6) Nightingale admitted the offences last year and was detained for 18 months, but following a well-organised campaign spearheaded by his wife the sentence was reduced and the conviction quashed because of the way the case had been handled by the court.
(7) The possibility of a third bailout has still not been entirely quashed.
(8) The CCRC said it made the referral after new information – not raised at trial – was received, which raises the possibility of the court of appeal quashing the conviction.
(9) The first position from the US about tobacco was advocacy of a carve-out that would quash legal challenges against tough tobacco laws, meaning there could be no trade dispute based on the adoption of domestic laws that hit tobacco products as long as those laws did not discriminate on the basis of the country of origin of the tobacco, and that the approach was scientifically based.
(10) Stock markets roared ahead and sterling tumbled after the Bank of England and European Central Bank took unprecedented steps to quash investor fears that they were preparing to reduce monetary stimulus.
(11) Miliband's office moved quickly to quash that argument.
(12) "[In the] last farm bill debate in 2008, Rep Earl Blumenauer heroically tried to force a vote on food aid reform, but was quashed by an overbearing rules committee, which wouldn't permit him to offer the amendment.
(13) Neymar almost quashed the host’s rally when he drew an excellent save from Asenjo in the 60th minute but Villarreal quickly levelled the score when a corner kick hit Mathieu and fell into the net.
(14) For sympathisers, who may or may not share his ideological beliefs, the hunger striker is the embodiment of injustice – a young man no longer seen as a convicted felon, but a victim wronged by authorities determined to quash dissent.
(15) Amid growing calls from News Corp shareholders for James Murdoch to step down as the chairman of BSkyB, his father also attempted to quash speculation that the scandal had dashed the chances of his younger taking over his media empire.
(16) China has become increasingly diligent about quashing critical voices, apparently fearful that they could spark protests like those that unseated autocrats in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya last year.
(17) Mubarak's wife, Suzanne, and her two daughters-in-law were granted special permission to visit him early on Sunday to quash rumours of his death, the official said at Cairo's Torah prison.
(18) The decision quashed a key plank of UK asylum policy.
(19) Victoria to quash gay sex convictions Read more “The legislation will ensure that any individual prosecuted under these offences will no longer suffer distress or be disadvantaged by a criminal record in relation to travel, employment, and volunteering,” said a statement from Vanessa Goodwin, the Tasmanian attorney general.
(20) They add: “ It makes little sense to maintain an additional aircraft carrier without aircraft to fly off it and the necessary aircraft, surface ships and submarines to protect it.” David Cameron appeared at last year’s Nato summit to quash speculation about the Prince of Wales’s future by saying the navy would go ahead and commission it.