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Example sentences for "evasions"

Lexicographically close words:
evaporating; evaporation; evaporative; evaporator; evasion; evasive; evasively; evasiveness; eve; eveh
  1. In our achievement of facing the truth in the place of evasions about fundamental things, lies the path, I believe along which woman can escape, if ever she is to escape, from the confusion of purposes that distract her at present.

  2. Concealments and evasions may be an aid at one stage of sex evolution.

  3. The pusillanimous John, who had been prince regent since the insanity of his mother in 1792, hesitated and shuffled, seeking to put off the emperor with negotiations and evasions and a show of hostility to England.

  4. Even the governors sent out for the special purpose of repressing evasions recommended modifications.

  5. Others will try to distinguish between evasions and equivocations; but though there are evasions which are clearly not equivocations, yet it is very difficult scientifically to draw the line between the one and the other.

  6. It is very difficult to draw the line between these evasions and what are commonly called in English equivocations; and of this difficulty, again, I think, the scenes in the House of Commons supply us with illustrations.

  7. This left untouched the roots of trouble and accomplished little, in consequence, it is said, of the delays and evasions of the inquisitors, and frequent recourse continued to the Banch Reyal, especially by creditors.

  8. This was a tone wholly different from that to which the Inquisition had been accustomed under the Hapsburgs; the evasions and delays of the Suprema, which had so long been successful, proved fruitless.

  9. The evasions occur mostly in Codex A and seem to be yunger East-Gothic forms; cp.

  10. There are ten thousand ways of evading such laws, and slight evasions gradually produce a habit of violating law, and harden the mind against the feer of its penalties.

  11. Their ill humor had been so much irritated by the king's frequent evasions and delays, that it could not be presently appeased by an assent which he allowed to be so reluctantly extorted from him.

  12. She wondered how she had missed him, and if he had been looking for her; she thought of the exquisite secret that bound them together, and wondered how he was going to protect it without evasions or untruthfulness.

  13. The time has come when you must tell it, your evasions and dodgings will not avail you any longer.

  14. And then, once Sam Lucas got him in the witness-chair, it would be all day with his evasions and concealments.

  15. But such evasions were looked upon with little favour by the great body of theologians, and the name of St. Thomas Aquinas was triumphantly cited against them.

  16. Henry Smith, a noted preacher, thundered from the pulpit of St. Clement Danes in London against "the evasions of Scripture" which permitted men to lend money on interest at all.

  17. As to the evasions of previous pre-emption laws, of which so much had been said, he believed they either had no existence in Missouri, or had been grossly exaggerated.

  18. A broader remedy was wanted, and it was found in the total abolition of the practice, leaving in full force all the remedies against fraudulent evasions of debt.

  19. Those long ago evasions that had silenced her little-girl questions he had forgotten.

  20. Margot, who must undo all the trouble that years of evasions from Grandy and lies from Mademoiselle D'Ormy have stored up for her!

  21. These got out of the difficulty by evasions and the most dazzling promises.

  22. And if some of them shewed themselves more obliging, the evasions and reticences of the antagonist, and sometimes outside circumstances, made the debate utterly futile.

  23. Evasions and disclaimers, while encroaching on the British Colonies and making preparations for war against England.

  24. No omissions nor evasions would answer the end.

  25. The vast number of evasions and smugglers which the embargo has created is surprising.

  26. The two principal difficulties so far encountered were the evasions of vessels bound coastwise, and departure without clearance.

  27. It is not the exclusion law that causes hardship, but the steamship companies that connive at evasions of the law.

  28. The law is with great difficulty enforced as it is, but the evasions bear no comparison in number with those practised under the other law.

  29. The book is occupied in hunting down all the evasions by which these conclusions may be escaped, and in showing that the true theory, when rightly understood, is obnoxious to no objections on the score of morality.

  30. He had been well informed that great evasions had taken place, and that this unlawful trade was becoming more and more in use.

  31. To remove doubts and check evasions another Act was made in 21 George II.

  32. Various devices were resorted to to check the evasions of bachelors, widows and others.

  33. Under another aspect of our situation the early attention of Congress will be due to the expediency of further guards against evasions and infractions of our commercial laws.

  34. Only in this way can violations or evasions of the law be surely detected.

  35. The methods of such evasions and violations are set forth in detail in the reports of the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of the General Land Office.

  36. Others will try to distinguish between evasions and equivocations; but they will be answered, that, though there are evasions which are clearly not equivocations, yet that it is difficult scientifically to draw the line between them.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evasions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.