I gulped, and searched without success through my box of excuses, reasons and evasions. |
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And with more questions being asked than ever before, democracy demands answers not evasions. |
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Some Chinese history specialists were less inclined to make excuses for the evasions, however. |
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Instead we shall be presented once more with weasel words, evasions and probably downright lies from the government's legal apologist. |
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So far, it looks as if, through a series of subterfuges and evasions, there will be neither an adequate investigation nor any accountability. |
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She'd expected evasions, excuses, but not the calm rebuttal that she had just heard. |
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Instead, his speech to the UN assembly was full of high-sounding generalities and evasions. |
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No answer was forthcoming, just the patended evasions of the typical west-hating anti-war gasbag. |
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As with all personal questions, I tried to avoid answering, but she took my evasions to be an affirmative response. |
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Yes, their coquettishness and evasions can exasperate men looking for an unequivocal answer to riddles of life and love. |
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The real evil is the muddle, the tangle of evasions, words, intrigues by which he instinctively seeks to dodge reality. |
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That tape will prove far more persuasive than any expedient and mealy mouthed evasions. |
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She fools herself into thinking she can control the situation, but gradually the little white lies, awkward evasions and chance meetings combine to expose her guilty secret. |
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Today's religionists may insist that this time will be different, but their evasions cannot eradicate the inherent connection between faith and force. |
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Its success has been limited as the history of the era between 1914-18 and 1939-45 shows and the record of evasions, fudges, compromises and failures is a discouraging one. |
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Their essays denounced those writers who had retreated into moral and political evasions or pure aestheticism under the pressures of totalitarianism. |
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Once again, without any democratic discussion, the government is proceeding against the express wishes of the British people by resort to lies and evasions. |
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The management that deals in evasions, half-truths or misrepresentation is subverting the fundamentals of morale building. |
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Police officers and revenue inspectors issued 32 penalty fines for fare evasions after boarding buses stopping in London Road, Thornton Heath, last Wednesday. |
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I regret that no one has published a complete transcript of the 1 hour plus press conference, because it would have highlighted the evasions and contradictions. |
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This tells us much, but the erudite ignoramuses always search for evasions and excuses in order to alter the truth. |
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It has reflected the state of the nation even in its glosses and evasions, and through its selections and interpretations of Britain's past. |
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These days, however, crisis management is more likely to involve a series of evasions. |
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Any evasions, any attempts at concessions will only postpone the moment when madmen will make a grab for power. |
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Similar evasions are used with respect to the other proposals aimed at reducing acid emissions. |
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For four days we have asked specific questions about entitlement and for four days we have had evasions. |
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The problem of infringements or evasions, however, is not considered a serious problem in any of the countries surveyed. |
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In my own country audits conducted by our Food Safety Authority have shown frequent evasions and omissions in terms of the way in which food is prepared, specific risk materials are dealt with and other matters are looked at. |
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Of such quaint face-saving evasions is diplomacy made. |
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Adjectivally through political dialogue, which needs to be predicated on human rights, and substantially, I would say, by the European Union by using a clearer and more substantive language with fewer evasions. |
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Some of the certainties are also based on evasions and, from time to time, on a lack of willingness to enunciate clear, consistent and defensible principles. |
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We indicated in our 1990 report on enforcement that a large decline in the publicity generated by prosecutions for tax evasions had resulted from this policy. |
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Consultants are notorious for using jargon, euphemisms, evasions and other gobbledegook, so it is especially important to pin them down as to their meaning. |
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He likes salty memorable phrases, rather than euphemisms and evasions. |
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But he does identify failures, evasions, misleading actions, unjustifiable delays, and pervasive unhelpfulness – all of which amounts to severely sub-optimal academic practice. |
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Without him there to challenge and contradict her, a reader might overlook the evasions and liberties she allows herself as she fictionalizes her way through existence. |
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The second is the contrast with the inarticulate stumblings, mumblings, evasions and half-truths of our current president. |
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