(a.) Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.
(a.) Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.
(n.) One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.
(n.) Something hard to be caught or detained.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the British government is facing a catch-22 situation, being equally anxious – as former diplomat Oliver Miles pointed out in the London Review of Books – to avoid setting the opposing precedent of allowing Assange to remain as a fugitive within the embassy in defiance of a European arrest warrant.
(2) "Nizeyimana is a top-level fugitive, among the four most senior of the dozen people we were still seeking," said Hassan Bubacar Jallow, chief prosecutor at the ICTR.
(3) Every day, as part of routine targeted enforcement operations, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Fugitive Operations teams arrest criminal aliens and other individuals who are in violation of our nation’s immigration laws,” Byrd said in a statement.
(4) I felt like a fugitive, a voice in the wilderness of televisual parody.
(5) Petraeus and his men would make unannounced visits in the middle of the night to Ljiljana Karadžić, the fugitive’s wife, with the aim of rattling her with a show of bravado about his imminent capture, in the hope she would rush to warn him, and give away his location.
(6) A withdrawal from the EAW, as a result of the Conservative obsession to limit Britain's partnership and co-operation in the EU, would be welcomed by all transnational criminals who flee British justice and rely on other countries' legal systems to delay the return of any fugitive to British justice.
(7) His younger brother Salah is still on the run, Europe’s most wanted fugitive.
(8) Adani has calculated that the mine will release an additional 3bn tonnes of CO2 in Australia over a 60-year period, due to fugitive emissions.
(9) Sudan failed to act on the 2009 international warrant for its head of state, Omar al-Bashir, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, leading the ICC to describe him as "a fugitive president".
(10) The title came from an incident in 1975 when, as a young housewife in Salisbury, the capital of white-run Rhodesia, she made dinner at her home for a white liberal friend and Mugabe, then a fugitive guerrilla leader.
(11) • In the US, senator Robert Menendez, chair of the Senate foreign relations committee, said Snowden was a " fugitive who belongs in a United States courtroom " and said the episode had damaged US-Russian relations.
(12) Last week's US special forces raid to capture a fugitive Libyan al-Qaida leader, apparently the trigger for the move against Zeidan, was a humiliating reminder both of the impotence of the government and of how the country has become a safe haven for terrorists.
(13) 7.27pm BST EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg agreed to add four names to the list of people whose assets in the European Union have been blocked for allegedly embezzling Ukrainian state property under fugitive pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych, the Associated Press reports: The new names, which brought the total to 22, including Yanukovych himself, are to be made public Tuesday.
(14) The fugitive enjoyed a millionaire's lifestyle while on the run.
(15) The routine has become almost familiar: a fugitive mafia boss is cornered by Mexican security forces and captured without a shot fired.
(16) Last month, Guy Verhofstadt, a prominent member of the European parliament, told Reuters that Europe needed "full transparency" because of the US National Security Agency surveillance made public by fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
(17) The folksy and charismatic cartel leader of puffy cheeks and large nose, known to wear a baseball cap and a grey-haired goatee, was a fugitive also wanted in the US for conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine.
(18) • Senior Serbian officials have told US diplomats in Belgrade that Russia may know the whereabouts of the fugitive Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic .
(19) "We have already identified and reconstructed the means by which they supported the fugitives.
(20) Jimmy McGovern's saga of the ill-fated residents of The Street was similarly afflicted, despite its pedigree, as was Broadchurch, the unremitting Southcliffe and Prey, the recent Mancunian take on The Fugitive which managed to be both far-fetched and gruellingly mundane.
Momentary
Definition:
(a.) Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang.
Example Sentences:
(1) Agüero tried to retreive the situation – proof that City had more than enough finishers on hand to take advantage of momentary Burnley disarray – though, forced away from goal, he shot from a narrow angle and missed the target.
(2) The horizontal changes of the other points analyzed as well as all vertical changes are not predicted satisfactorily in the momentary version 4.22 A (febr.
(3) These analyses unmasked unique attributes of spontaneous LH secretory events, which were represented as delimited momentary augmentations in endogenous LH secretory rates interspersed among intervals of relative secretory quiescence.
(4) Results indicate that momentary DRO maintained response suppression comparable to that obtained by whole-interval DRO.
(5) In the epicortical recordings, the development of a new focus is indicated by a functional uncoupling between the superficial layers of the cortical area to be involved and the momentary active focus.
(6) All this reached its apogee in 1987, with the sleeve art for Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason .
(7) Responses which identified the momentary state of the display were food-reinforced, while those which did not (errors) produced time out.
(8) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
(9) Reducing MDx production or the repair period, or accelerating the creation of new modeling units would have the opposite effects on the momentary MDx burden but would also go through a transient phase before developing the new steady state conditions.
(10) Previous studies have shown that momentary contact between a methylmethacrylate intraocular lens and the corneal endothelial cells results in extensive cell damage.
(11) The momentary entry of urine into the proximal urethra during coughing can be demonstrated by a new test which can be conducted using apparatus now commonly available for urodynamic investigations.
(12) In that momentary pause my nerves bubbled up in my chest.
(13) How about: 'Fuck off you fucking…'" Cue momentary alarm before, thankfully, his face relaxes and he laughs out loud.
(14) It is argued that in schizophrenia a core deficit in momentary processing capacity underlies the above performance pattern.
(15) Palatabilities and also satieties are assumption-loaded abstractions from the observable momentary causal relationships between eating or drinking and the situations in which it occurs.
(16) After successful colposuspension, the proximal urethra is exposed to compression against the symphysis pubis by the momentary descent of the pelvic viscera during physical effort.
(17) Most television, to which talented, energetic people devoted months or years of their lives, has left momentary imprints on our retinas and slightly less momentary imprints on our brains before vanishing into the ether.
(18) The further computation of the EEG time series after DHT results in the time series of the momentary power and the momentary frequency.
(19) The approach through a left thoracotomy gave good exposure and momentary cessation of cardiopulmonary bypass made ligation of the calcified ductus possible.
(20) A system for measuring oxygen consumption from momentary respiratory values of free moving person is described.