What's the difference between evasive and noncommittal?

Evasive


Definition:

  • (a.) Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nicholas Shaxson – the author of Treasure Islands, a book about the world of tax evasion – described the demands as "incredibly powerful".
  • (2) The NYT article further shines further light into this murky affair, in which both News International and the Metropolitan Police have so far been evasive, to say the least."
  • (3) Hollande ended up defending until to the bitter end Jérôme Cahuzac , a finance minister responsible for fighting tax evasion who turned out to have used a secret Swiss bank account to avoid paying taxes in France.
  • (4) It is suggested that this may contribute to parasite evasion of the host immune response.
  • (5) According to research and advocacy organisation Global Financial Integrity , nearly $1tn in illicit financial flows—the proceeds of crime, corruption, and tax evasion—flows illicitly out of developing countries every year.
  • (6) In the test-group animals evasion showed a decrease compared with the untreated control animals, but there was no evidence of a relation to the timing of the bleedings.
  • (7) But it was also a portrait of an England charged with secrets - and, as Michael Billington put it, the work of an accomplished playwright who understood the English curse of 'emotional evasion.'
  • (8) I believe in wealth creation and company profits, and for the government to play its part, and we have been working closely with business to shape that agenda.” Specifically, Miliband pointed out David Cameron, during his chairmanship of the G8 in 2013, had promised to make a crackdown on tax evasion one of his central goals.
  • (9) The complex immunological relationships between schistosomes and their vertebrate hosts are considered to be conveniently divisible into four distinct, though interrelated categories: the parasite's vulnerability to, its evasion of, and its exploitation of the host's immune response, and its stimulation of the host's immune response to produce immunopathology.
  • (10) What we need is international action now, and that’s precisely what we are doing today with real concrete action in the war against tax evasion.” He said the transparency rules on beneficial ownership showed that Britain and other governments were working to shine a spotlight on “those hiding spaces, those dark corners of the global financial system”.
  • (11) Here's more details and reaction: Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi more than 50 trials.. blabla... etc, judges have drawn my name in the mud, took up my time, my patience, huge economic resources September 18, 2013 Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi , ridicolous sentence to 4 years, for tax evasion that I didn't commit, and even if I did would be minor.
  • (12) Cellino was initially disqualified in December when the League ruled a first-grade conviction for tax evasion on a yacht in Sardinia was a “dishonest offence” and that he was therefore in breach of the organisation’s owners’ and directors’ test.
  • (13) Jeremy Hunt has serious questions to answer, especially his deliberately evasive statement to parliament.
  • (14) This procedure is manifested in the region of system-immanent weak spots of the positional and locomotor system and, in the pelvic girdle region by tipping of the pelvis in ventral direction, with consecutive evasive shifts of the vertebral column and extremities.
  • (15) 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".
  • (16) When, in the course of studying this behavior, moths are removed by stages from the natural circumstances of this interaction their evasion responses become much less invariant; that is, more evitable.
  • (17) The report of the inquiry, which helped bring down the Irish government of the day, found fraud and serious illegality in Goodman's companies in the 1980s that had involved not just the faking of documents, but also the commissioning of bogus official stamps, including those of other countries, to misclassify carcasses; passing off of inferior beef trimmings as higher-grade meat; cheating of customs officers; and institutionalised tax evasion.
  • (18) Meanwhile, the editor of an investigative magazine went on trial on Monday for publishing a list of some 2,000 wealthy Greeks with Swiss bank accounts who the government has yet to investigate for possible tax evasion.
  • (19) Abbott’s few remaining apologists in the domestic media have vaingloriously announced today that our prime minister is putting the mighty US “on notice” about tax evasion.
  • (20) The model described here might represent a useful tool to further analyze the mechanisms involved in immune evasion of Leishmania parasites.

Noncommittal


Definition:

  • (n.) A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's more noncommittal, as a Muslim, about Obama's promises to open dialogue between Islamic leaders and America.
  • (2) I’m usually Labour” is an ominously noncommittal doorstep refrain: Jeremy Corbyn’s name often follows.
  • (3) Mention of the Lib Dems was met with noncommittal shrugs, as if you might just about bring yourself to back them, knowing it was little more than a futile protest vote.
  • (4) The author discusses the signs and symptoms appearing in the course of so called noncommittant squints.
  • (5) The chief executive, Ron Gourlay, has been publicly appreciative but noncommittal on Di Matteo's prospects, with the manager claiming still to be relaxed and focused on his immediate task as his contract ticks down towards expiry.
  • (6) Results of these analyses show that guidelines are too often formulated in a noncommittal way and that there is a need for a more functional registration system to link information about the clinical working diagnoses, the bacteria isolated and the sensitivity to the antibiotics used.
  • (7) Bassa was noncommittal about the offer, adding that it was still considering a "formal response", but said the proposals would be considered by shop stewards and ultimately by members.
  • (8) Andy Thornton, chief executive of the Citizenship Foundation, said: "So far responses from the Department for Education to our enquiries have been noncommittal and focus mainly on the coalition's proposals for a 'national citizens service'."
  • (9) Noncommittant squints are divided into squints caused by paresis or by a total paralysis of the motor muscles.
  • (10) This picture has all the traits of a well-rounded photograph: there are the jack rabbits on the fence, which make it look as if there is movement; the car that’s really dead, including the tumbleweed to one side and the beat-up old licence plate; the sky is totally noncommittal; the horizon is mute.
  • (11) She is, at first, similarly noncommittal about what she thinks of conversations around the burqa in the UK.
  • (12) Nomura analyst Rick Sherland had downgraded the company to a neutral – or noncommittal – stock recommendation on its disappointing stock performance.
  • (13) Two years into a five-year deal and recently appointed captain of Lazio, Biglia was noncommittal upon being asked if his promotion meant he would be staying at the club.
  • (14) But as a declaration of a military objective, it is slippery and noncommittal.
  • (15) Their Labour councillors refused to discuss the matter until after June 2004's council elections; when the council broke its silence, it was either noncommittal or brazenly enthusiastic about the Vardy proposal.
  • (16) The behaviour of these neoplasms has prompted the suggestion that these tumours be designated carcinomas rather that noncommittally tumours or neoplasms (Batsakis and Regezzi, 1977).
  • (17) Lamar McKay, the president of BP's US subsidiary, was also noncommittal about the plan during testimony before Congress earlier yesterday.
  • (18) Shortly after my first child was born, I attended a job interview where I responded to a casual question about my domestic circumstances with a revealingly noncommittal answer: "I live with my girlfriend – at the moment."
  • (19) And [the protagonists] were portrayed as Jews, so that was portrayed as a good thing?” I grunted noncommittally, which he took as a signal to move on to his critique of Django Unchained.
  • (20) For it, the author prefers the descriptive and diagnostically noncommittal acronym "BSAP".