Nina Bawden

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.

British Writer

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action - faithful action, for the world, and in God.

French Philosopher

Jeff Duncan

I think Americans raise eyebrows when you tell them that IRS agents are training with a type of weapon that has stand-off capability. It's not like they're carrying a sidearm, and they knock on someone's door and say, 'You're evading your taxes.

American Politician

Lawrence Durrell

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Kevin Mitnick

Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

American Businessman

Steve Wynn

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

Thomas Sowell

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

American Economist

Reuven Rivlin

I won't allow any party to evade the question of which leader they support for prime minister.

Israeli Politician

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

American President

John Gregory Dunne

Evading military service has a long history in American life.

American Novelist

Used when someone smartly dodges an unwanted situation or obligation.

Clever Avoidance

'Evade' often suggests trickery or deceitfulness.

Negative Implication

Often refers to physical elusion, like escaping from a place.

Physical Escapes

Indicates giving an answer that doesn't directly address the question.

Indirect Answers

Can imply a deliberate attempt to conceal the truth.

Hiding the Truth

Specific to laws and regulations, often about wrongful practices.

Legality Context

Related to avoiding financial obligations, like taxes or debts.

Financial Dishonesty

 And because they operated in a relatively small area, its broadcasters had to move constantly to evade capture. To communicate undetected, the group modified two radios into telephones, linked together through kilometers of barbed wire covering the countryside. This secret telephone line helped the rebels

The rebel radio that...

 This single determined termite is braving countless threats to participate in the only flight of her lifetime. She evades the onslaught of predators even as she lands, flips off her wings, secretes pheromones, and attracts a mate. The pair dash from the danger zone into a rotting tree stump.

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 there have been comparisons of positive and negative stimuli. In this setting, a commercial setting, there's a new kind of difference that has kind of evaded the academic world for a while, and that difference is that whether positive stimuli

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 Another hypothesis was that worm grunting tickled their bodies, so they emerged to end the aggravation. Whimsical! But worm grunting vibrates the ground’s surface. If worms were evading the vibrations, wouldn't they burrow deeper instead?

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 but that's not just because they enjoy each other's company. It's a matter of survival. Schools of fish exhibit complex swarming behaviors that help them evade hungry predators, while a lone fish is quickly singled out as easy prey.

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 Will it happen again? I mean, in the spirit of rising to TED's challenge to reignite wonder, we can ask questions, at least for this last minute, that honestly might evade us forever. But we have to Is it possible that our universe

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 than our physical ones. Yet, Barlow's riddle has remained vexingly unsolved. Concepts like property and ownership -- ideas that have been with us for centuries in the physical world -- have evaded us in our digital spaces.

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 depth may be how the dugongs managed to evade the Sharks shallow water means tiger sharks so dugongs do a lot of their foraging in deep water where the tiger sharks don't hunt another of nature's mystery solved

Dugongs vs. Tiger Sharks...

 They stomp their feet at rattlesnakes, kick sand towards them, and evade their strikes with acrobatic leaps and powerful kicks— helping them live to guide another snake tour.

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 and the deep blue sea if the flying fish get too much lift they become easy prey for the frigates if they dive to evade attacks from above

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