At one time, at any rate, in the French ports were to be found brokers who would insure the evasion of a cargo of goods for a premium of fifteen per cent.
This fraudulent evasion of taxation was anything but confined to the Astor family.
As a matter of fact, the evasion of taxes by the Pullman Company had been a public scandal for many years.
Well, it may be that some hot-headed partisan would take such nothingarianism upon trust; but sensible men and even ladies would think themselves insulted by such an evasion of coming events!
Here and there a like evasion of responsibility and of the provisions of the law was to be found.
In Wales, as in the North of England, women and children are employed in the mines, and there is constant evasion of the laws regulating hours, with a wage as inadequate as the work is heavy.
Any evasion of this plan of sale will be a trespass upon the copyright rights of the author.
Any evasion of this plan will be a trespass upon the copyright rights of the author.
Therefore it is no evasion to say that there is no cash in the shop, because it is often the fact.
Mr. Smith further says, that what he calls the evasion of the Act is as much at the wish of the fishermen as at the wish of the proprietor.
Is not that an evasionof the Merchant Shipping Act?
Was not that an evasionof the Merchant Shipping Act?
Nineteen years' evasion by the Massachusetts Bay Rulers of the conditions on which King Charles II.
The same kind of misleading evasion was practised upon the Government in England in regard to the Quakers, as in respect to the Baptists, the Episcopalians, and the elective franchise.
The Council of Valence (1248) went further and decreed thatevasion should be regarded as a sign of impenitent heresy.
This was for the purpose of identification to prevent the evasion of taxes and of military service.
It had become a mere matter of form and was found quite useless for the purpose intended, namely a preventative against the evasion of the taxes.
In any case the truth will be sure to come out, and you will find it useless to screen yourself behind evasion and denials.
But mere defiance is a feeble weapon and evasion a cumbersome one.
Holding himself little bounden to his duties, he soon started on a career of evasion and silence.
Coleridge's fault was Thompson's--an evasion of the daily dues of man to man.
This was however suffered, by the acquiescence of the whole kingdom, for ages; because the evasion of the old Statute of Westminster, which authorised perpetuities, had more sense and utility than the law which was evaded.
The reason for this compendious evasion was that Leo, prior to his election, had taken an oath to revoke the indulgence of Julius II, and to supply otherwise the money required for St. Peters.
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
Walter was silent, but Alison's eyes flamed upon him in such consuming hatred, that any evasion here would have seemed cowardice.
All these arrangements had been made so hastily, with such dictatorial politeness, and in such an incontrovertible tone of command, that no evasion seemed possible.
He had entered upon the subject in a masterly way; he had made all evasion impossible, but still he was not to win the victory so easily.
Fortunately no such thing occurred, and Predestination's powers of evasion were not put to the test.
This put him on his guard, and he prepared to meet further questions with evasion or defiance.
When she came to the writer's picturesque suggestion of his life of constant dodging and evasion of his pursuers, she softened nothing of his brutal phraseology.
Finally, in a tremendous scene between Big Daddy and Brock, the father pursued his son through every kind ofevasion and rationalization in a determined effort to break through to his heart.
They use their knowledge about love as an evasion of their responsibility to express love.
