What's the difference between evade and shirk?

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.

Shirk


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
  • (v. t.) To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.
  • (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
  • (v. i.) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
  • (n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Others have found more striking-power, or more simple poetry, but none an interpretation at once so full (in the sense of histrionic volume) and so consistently bringing all the aspects together, without any shirking or pruning away of what is inconvenient.
  • (2) A new report is just another excuse for those in power to shirk responsibility, to blame the people they have already degraded once and who cannot defend themselves.
  • (3) Time at home, alone, without chores, is still often felt as shirking responsibility.
  • (4) He’s taking a lot of stick at the moment – as everyone is – but it is a measure of him that he fronts it up every day and doesn’t shirk it.
  • (5) Shirk said one-party China – a country most still associate with little more than economic success and autocratic governance – saw a chance to rebrand itself as a benevolent great power acting in the common good.
  • (6) Neville has work ahead; the good news is that he will not shirk it.
  • (7) While some bosses shirk from defending their personal pay deals, Horta-Osório – whose 10-strong management team cashed in on £23m through the same bonus scheme – does not.
  • (8) Schreiber points out that some of the debates against the ERA were about "masculinity run amok": "Phyllis Schlafly said if we were are treated as equals, then men will shirk their responsibilities," she notes.
  • (9) Poon said Beijing was attempting to shift the focus on to how much medical attention Liu was receiving to shirk responsibility for its “cold-blooded” treatment of the democracy activist.
  • (10) They chased every ball, never shirked a tackle and, when they needed a centre-forward to show composure and experience, they had a 32-year-old from Stoke City, with silver flecks in his hair, who passed the test with distinction.
  • (11) Focusing on glorifying and eternalising the leaders and taking refuge in God and inserting them into hidden shirk [idolatry] through immortalising ephemeral, temporary personalities.
  • (12) At the same time, we will not shirk from vigorously defending our right and proper role to expose wrongdoing in the public interest."
  • (13) Are workers seen as a burden, a cost, people who would rather skive and shirk responsibilities, and who have to be supervised rigorously at all times?
  • (14) Jones said Australia was engaging with the UN with goodwill on how best to tackle the crisis, and not on how to shirk its international responsibilities.
  • (15) As Republicans we will not shirk our responsibility and we believe that it is now necessary for us to take this lead in bringing the agreement to its conclusion.
  • (16) "My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
  • (17) But he has never been one to shirk a challenge, choosing to serve in Vietnam so he could stay in the US after moving to New York in the 1960s.
  • (18) Some European partners are shirking from the task,” she said.
  • (19) However, human rights groups say Britain is shirking its legal responsibilities – fearful that the route could be seen as a “back door” to Britain – and coercing people into staying put while paying Cyprus to house and feed them.
  • (20) It’s not me shirking my responsibilities, I take internet security seriously, but I can’t always protect myself against an army of online fraud experts.