(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.
Runaway
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive.
(n.) The act of running away, esp. of a horse or teams; as, there was a runaway yesterday.
(a.) Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse.
(a.) Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage.
(a.) Won by a long lead; as, a runaway victory.
(a.) Very successful; accomplishing success quickly; as, a runaway bestseller.
Example Sentences:
(1) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
(2) Although runaway pacemaker is a rare complication in modern pacemakers, but it still exists.
(3) And in terms of genuine defence needs (as opposed to state militarism), what greater known threat is there to human security than the prospect of runaway climate change?
(4) A case of a unipolar surgical electrocautery-induced runaway pacemaker is described.
(5) Although runaway is infrequent with current generation pacemakers, it should be considered in addition to the more common causes of pacemaker malfunction in the patient with appropriate symptoms.
(6) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(7) Characteristics found to be significantly associated with program outcome included: race; probation; drug abuse; program intervention; home visits; and runaway behavior.
(8) The "lock-in" effect is the single most important factor increasing the danger of runaway climate change, according to the IEA in its annual World Energy Outlook, published on Wednesday.
(9) A 16-base-pair fragment, deletion of which completely inactivated oriC, was replaced by a temperature-dependent runaway-replication derivative (the copy number of which increases with temperature) of the IncFII plasmid R1.
(10) He vowed to to stop the runaway train of bureaucracy in its tracks, “giving our teachers more time to do what they do best”.
(11) (He says his own job suddenly changed five years ago, too: from trying to stimulate economic activity in Williston to attempting to manage the runaway growth.)
(12) As population rises, this argument runs, consumption will increase and place an impossible strain on natural resources, from water supplies and agricultural land to fish in the ocean, as well as giving rise to runaway climate change as we burn ever more fossil fuels.
(13) Australia is already the globe’s biggest coal exporter and “mega-mine” plans in Queensland for more extraction are identified as the world’s second biggest “ carbon bomb ” threatening runaway global warming.
(14) Clinical experiences and laboratory studies are described involving a population of workers who were exposed in a plant making 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T), including a trichlorophenol runaway reaction.
(15) This indicates that the runaway pacemaker is still a potential problem, even in newer pacemakers, and reemphasizes the unpredictable and serious nature of this medical emergency.
(16) Whitehall insists it is only the threat of non-payment that keeps runaway EU spending in check.
(17) Significant numbers of runaway and street youth are at risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
(18) If a battery heats up beyond 80C you hit what is called thermal runaway, where the components start to decompose, and that’s when it can explode.” The specific cause of Samsung’s issues with exploding batteries is unknown, the company just cites “ a battery cell issue ”.
(19) Only in this way – by doing everything possible to make reductions everywhere, rather than polluting in one place and offsetting in another – does the world have a good chance of avoiding runaway climate change, such critics claim.
(20) 29 June: Jason Owen moves into the home with a 15-year-old runaway girl.