Not in the mood to be evasive or cryptic, she turned back to him, eyes glowing in the sun. |
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It would allow a missile fired by a fighter to react to evasive movements by its target, ensuring a direct hit. |
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Heavy anti-aircraft fire forced the planes to take evasive action, and even trained pathfinders had trouble finding and marking the drop zones. |
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In taking such excessive, evasive action he was not the only eminent Victorian to be sickened by the idea of engaging in sexual congress. |
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Unlike bomber crews, we could take violent evasive action to get out of accurate heavy flak. |
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He talks and talks, but when it comes to the point he either does nothing or he's just evasive. |
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And to cast someone like me, who can be quite evasive in terms of avoiding seriousness, I can just be fluffy, because it's easier. |
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He's a bit more evasive when asked about the treatment of his prisoners of war. |
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He was sullen and evasive in his videotaped deposition for the governments antitrust case and the judge scolded him for lack of candor. |
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I find this area diffuse with a billion reasons advanced for becoming serious or evasive over serious music. |
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I thought both men made some good points and both said some evasive, disingenuous things. |
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He was boring, which is fine, but more seriously, he didn't know what he was talking about and he gave evasive answers. |
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The most simple of questions elicited a long, complex and essentially evasive response in many, many instances. |
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Regulations that limit choice or impose costs on people invite evasive responses as much as compliant ones, sometimes more so. |
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When he brief the Subcommittee, his answers were both evasive and derisive. |
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Failure to answer, or providing evasive answers will count against the employer in a tribunal. |
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He is evasive and answers the most simple questions with long winded often irrelevant explanations. |
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At Westminster, a series of written questions has produced singularly evasive answers. |
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The responses were less than evasive and way more engaging, to say the least. |
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Why will nobody answer her phone calls, and what has the evasive photographer Bruno got to hide? |
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Yes, I'm wondering how he plans to win the public's trust when he is so evasive in answering questions. |
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Stephane appears genuinely interested in her music, although he is evasive and vague. |
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If the employer omits to reply, or is evasive or equivocal, the tribunal is entitled to make any inference it considers just and equitable. |
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If this week's world appears frustratingly elusive or evasive, you're not wrong. |
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Suzie takes the opportunity to ask him just what he is and in spite of his slippery, evasive answer, she does tell him to leave. |
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My evasive answer didn't seem to satisfy him and he kept his grip on my arm. |
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Being able to execute a number of evasive moves helps a lot in avoiding death. |
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Blackburn magistrates heard the officer had tried to take evasive action, which resulted in the car swerving across the road. |
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They tend to be immature, moody, self-centered and evasive of responsibility. |
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These spikes of energy, called action potentials, prompt the locusts to take evasive action. |
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I managed to take evasive action, hit the accelerator hard and got well ahead of him, out of harm's reach. |
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In the pursuit of this aim several attempts have to be made, which results in the surrounding traffic having to take evasive action. |
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He was also oblivious to the fact other drivers took evasive action to avoid colliding with the rear of his slowly moving vehicle. |
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The Peugeot flashed its headlights before taking evasive action to avoid a collision with the Renault. |
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He held the gun with his arms outstretched in front of his chest, causing drivers to take evasive action. |
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Singletons living the good life may one day be forced to move back home with mum and dad unless they take evasive action now, a report warns. |
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A dozen people suffered minor injuries after a lorry jack-knifed on an icy M62 which caused cars to take evasive action. |
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Pedestrians and cyclists were forced to take evasive action from the bees, with many taking cover in shops and doorways. |
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These provisions are designed not only to strengthen flag state control but also to deter evasive reflagging of vessels. |
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He is evasive when he comes to suggest a remedy for lack of representation. |
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The woman was incredibly limber and evasive, weaving through everything like she was made out of rubber and not flesh. |
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These evasive tactics have saved many a relationship for the last many years, but now things have gone out of hand if you ask me. |
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More amusingly, he briefly attempted to ban me from the campaign after my latest efforts to pry answers out of his blandly evasive candidate. |
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The shadower fired its maneuvering thrusters at full power as it tried to effect an erratic evasive pattern. |
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Smaller, lighter cars are much better at taking evasive action and are therefore much less likely to crash at all. |
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In this way, the creative process is likened to a search for something that is evasive and transitory, something that is difficult to grasp. |
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Adrian struck me as arrogant, flippant, evasive, defensive and unremorseful. |
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Far from being evasive, I think that Coetzee is passionately confessing, and that his entire book vibrates with confession. |
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Wayne Phillips cut a ball from spinner Phil Edmonds that hit Allan Lamb's boot as he turned to take evasive action. |
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But the people he deals with are all evasive to the point that he can't get a straight answer. |
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He becomes evasive and speaks stumblingly, as if he were trying to protect not only his room-mate from scrutiny but also himself. |
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If the group is staggered or further spread out so you can't outflank them to the side, you have to become especially evasive. |
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The first pitch comes in high forcing Roberts to take evasive action. |
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The rhetoric was mostly as empty of substance and evasive on details as a Paul Ryan budget. |
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Starting Jan. 1, 2013, taxes would rise on individuals across the board if no evasive action was taken. |
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She was leading the mare through the trees, searching as usual for a good tree to climb and those evasive signs of inhabitance when the horse stopped. |
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After a few months of evasive answers, they had all but given up. |
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The driver of the First York route ten bus travelling towards York is believed to have taken evasive action to avoid a girl who stepped out in the road. |
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The same evasive response comes from the authorities nearer the ground. |
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If he remains evasive and equivocal about this issue as he was the day before yesterday, people will believe he has lied and his voters will withhold their support for him. |
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He was banned for eight months rather than two years, which would have been the case had the FA not accepted that he was forgetful rather than evasive. |
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She was shifty, evasive and clearly unprepared for the assault. |
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He said each state witness had been extensively cross-examined, and the court had no reason to rule any of them evasive or to doubt their veracity. |
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This one I missed seeing until it was nearly too late, and as I took evasive action I nearly broadsided another car that I was not even aware was there! |
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Although the argument was specious, since everyone knew the significance of the vote, he certainly had been evasive when questioned directly on the issue. |
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In an attempt to lighten the mood, the camera follows the pratfalls of the galley crew trying to catch the food falling off the counters as the ship takes evasive maneuvers. |
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On two occasions in the past fortnight I have had to take evasive action when children have either walked or run straight out in front of my car at the top of Kingshill. |
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Last time we met he was in spectacular sore head mode, grouching at a line of questioning he didn't like and being airily evasive if he felt we were getting too deep. |
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The workmen, who were initially evasive about how much they would charge, used high-pressure selling tactics after calling at the pensioner's cottage uninvited. |
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Barlow was strangely evasive with the police, refusing to confirm he was the person who called Atkinson, yet he obviously was. |
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That gave very little time for either driver to take evasive action. |
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A pilot in charge of a Danish-registered coaster was forced to take evasive action when a fishing vessel appeared out of fog on the wrong side of the channel. |
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I've never seen London Mayor Boris Johnson look so awkward, evasive, and non-credible as in this BBC interview. |
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The emperor sent an evasive reply and, upon crossing the border, made sure that the echage marched on his right. |
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If the answers to the questions are willfully evasive or knowingly untrue, the talesman, when accepted, is a juror in name only. |
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Ezra Klein engages in uncharacteristically evasive language. |
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Examinations of the targeted crimeware threats that are growing in potency and evasive capacities. |
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With some species possessing spectacular leaping and evasive skills, individuals may escape. |
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This period also brought about the firearm and industrialized poisons, which made it easy for humans to kill the evasive and powerful birds. |
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Similarly, instructions on what to do if the fleet was instructed to take evasive action against torpedoes were amended. |
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The circumstances in which the threats were made must also have offered no reasonable opportunity for evasive action. |
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He complained of the evasive conduct of ministers and government apathy and complacency on factory reform. |
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There was no time to take evasive action, and the airship was caught in a violent upcurrent. |
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They may be evasive, where they befuddle their subjects, or apprehensible, where they gratify them. |
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Opposing counsel has a right to question you, and if you respond with smart talk or give evasive answers, opposing counsel may jump down your throat. |
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Bottlenose dolphins either use complex evasive strategies to outswim their predators, or mobbing techniques to batter the predator to death or force it to flee. |
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A potential predator may stop when it knows it has been detected, or an alarm call can allow conspecifics or related individuals to take evasive action. |
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The King gave evasive answers to the requests, and made no decision. |
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This has the advantage that it may help prevent the driver from sliding out of position during violent evasive maneuvers, which could cause loss of control of the vehicle. |
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