How To Use Circumvent In A Sentence

  • The team apparently circumvented locked gates and an alarm system, while the sculpture was in the process of being moved to another location.
  • To circumvent this problem, I have devised a system of price bands. The A-Z of Beauty Treatment
  • Traffic wardens in Bristol who issue the most tickets are being rewarded with meals and pens to circumvent a ban on financial incentives. Times, Sunday Times
  • True, we are expected to moonwalk across the vast waters dividing technology from the masses and tiptoe back on egocentric eggshells, circumventing treacherous misunderstandings and political back-stabbing.
  • The problem in banking is that ingenuity is invested in schemes to circumvent regulation. Times, Sunday Times
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  • He circumvented their objection to the plan by having one of their own members propose it.
  • Nevertheless, cryptocurrency experts said that serious criminals would easily circumvent the rules. Times, Sunday Times
  • And unless I make haste to circumvent this prepotent beast I am lost without recourse; and how well saith the poet, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • On the contrary, it turns to thoughts of sulphur tablets and camomile tea and other sickly or disagreeable circumventions of the "creakiness" of the human body. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
  • The conceptual block of the Nat Bell case is circumvented by regarding a component of the X question as jurisdictional.
  • In practice, broadcasting organisations were easily able to circumvent the ban by using the voices of actors. Times, Sunday Times
  • April 15th, 2010 at 10: 07 am eljefe says: that’s an easy one …. barry circumvents debt contracts in gm. Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 15, 2010
  • This has improved conditions for secondary teachers while circumventing the requirement of pay parity with primary teachers.
  • Computer programs in the form of firmware that enable wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telephone communication network, when circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network. Boing Boing: November 19, 2006 - November 25, 2006 Archives
  • One minute you're in a fight with him, the next, dude is kissing your hand and making you all melty, thereby circumventing the whole conflict.
  • Our village is circumvented by a stream.
  • When, under international pressure, the Hungarian regime stopped the deportations he circumvented its orders and dispatched a last trainload to the gas chambers.
  • I circumvented them — I played at bogle about the bush wi’ them — I cajolled them; and if I havena gien Inch – Grabbit and Jamie Howie a bonnie begunk, they ken themselves. Waverley
  • For the freedom to vote, electoral documents adulterate or use fraudulent means to circumvent the popular will; Miguel Estrada: Zelaya has “a meritorious immigration beef.” - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
  • The experts, who often are referred to as “elites,” were to be a machinery of knowledge that circumvents the primary defect of democracy, the impossible ideal of the “omnicompetent citizen”. Pigs fly, and the Times chides Obama on the oil spill
  • A more difficult question is whether employers can rely upon collective agreements to circumvent the need to make job reassignment.
  • To circumvent this difficulty, Hegel reformulates the problem of necessity as pertaining to the structuration of consciousness.
  • In practice, broadcasting organisations were easily able to circumvent the ban by using the voices of actors. Times, Sunday Times
  • The game had a single inviolable rule: obstacles were to be overcome, not circumvented.
  • Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulation.
  • We've been vocal critics of these companies, and so they all block us, using rubrics like "nudity" or "circumvention" -- because if you have one nude thumbnail or one page about circumvention, then all the tens of thousands of pages on your site will be blocked. Boing Boing
  • But there might be room in circumvention and DRM to apply his analysis. Archive 2009-04-01
  • The speaker circumvents the threat of potentially fatal contraction by becoming like the sun, by becoming what he beholds: "We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun," and the daybreak is suddenly "calm and cool" (564-5). 'Points of Contact': Blake and Whitman
  • Our village is circumvented by a stream.
  • All three face being struck off if they are found guilty of running the practice in order to circumvent conditions imposed by the Law Society.
  • To circumvent the problem, what we need is to propose land value taxation in an incremental manner, first as a hypothecated tax or benefit tax linking benefits to the community with the land taxes paid and demonstrating how the community or city development activities lead to land value uplifts for land-owners so that it is a win-win situation for all. Scott Baker: Will India Lead the Way in Urban Land Tax Reform? A Mission Director from the Indian Ministry of Housing Provides Some Answers
  • Well well, the NHL tonight stepped in tonight and voided the 17-year, $102 million contract signed by Ilya Kovalchuk with the Devils, saying it "circumvented" the salary cap. summarizes the provisions the league says were violated. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
  • Even if, in the beginning, we may have felt incongruent with the jealous workplace environment, slowly we start focusing our energies on how to avoid or circumvent it.
  • If he had been a seventeenth-century samurai I believe that he would refuse to hire ninja to circumvent the laws of Bushido. FLOATING CITY
  • Rigorous adherence to the principles of asepsis is the foundation of surgical site infection prevention, and this should never be circumvented to save time or money.
  • Did it all hinge on the creation of an all-powerful executive council, hand-picked by Fontaine to circumvent the chiefs?
  • I circumvented them -- I played at bogle about the bush wi 'them -- I cajoled them; and if I havena gien Inch-Grabbit and Jamie Howie a bonnie begunk, they ken themselves. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
  • Up for discussion still is how to treat the circumvention of copyright protection mechanisms.
  • I circumvented them -- I played at bogle about the bush wi 'them -- I cajolled them; and if I havena gien Inch-Grabbit and Jamie Howie a bonnie begunk, they ken themselves. Waverley
  • The thrower had used trickery to circumvent the criteria laid down in Law 15.
  • Today, children are "empowered" - blatantly encouraged to circumvent their parents and defy traditional values. EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL
  • In 1515 an attempt by several individuals to circumvent the inheritance of the daughters of Francisco de Cueto and Juana de Ochoa, professed nuns at Santa Catalina, was uncovered.
  • it was a device which would enable every unrecognised state to circumvent the fundamental principles of our law and, as such, would be contrary to public policy, being ‘a colourable device’.
  • I had no intention of violating or circumventing Senate rules.
  • It is because it is in the interests of all governments to circumvent, supplant and even subvert the processes of democracy, and that democracy itself is inimical to the interests the rich and the powerful.
  • The lead character, Chip, struggles desperately to find a way to circumvent the terrible boredom and meaninglessness of existence.
  • This complication is circumvented by using the matrix approach described earlier to obtain a first crude estimate of the price of the equivalent nonconvertible bond.
  • Creating devices that circumvent copyright protection measures is a violation of the DMCA.
  • I had no intention of violating or circumventing Senate rules.
  • Did it all hinge on the creation of an all-powerful executive council, hand-picked by Fontaine to circumvent the chiefs?
  • The inspector general's previous reports concluded the FBI's use of the so-called exigent letters circumvented the requirements of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and violated the attorney general's guidelines and FBI policy. Breaking News - The Post Chronicle
  • This could boldly circumvent taxes imposed on overland trade routes through Ottoman territories.
  • And it kind of circumvented the role that you and your fellow senators cherish so much. CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2005
  • It is the same in clause 7, which sets out the rights of navigation, the right to pass and repass, and the right of passage, except where some other Act circumvents or forecloses on that right.
  • You're absolutely right -- what some posters (re, bringing goods across the border, circumventing residency and work requirements) advocate is breaking the law. Page 2
  • The governor by signing this has kind of circumvented our efforts from the local level to protect the citizens of Escondido. CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2007
  • `If we circumvent the proper sequencing ," Thomas Rane said, `he may remembrance the Eddas imperfectly. THE BROKEN GOD
  • Half the time, all Charles needs to do is point the camera: the Institute for Science and Halacha, in Jerusalem, is a mad nest of creaking, puffing, Sabbath-circumventing machines — no commentary required. An Atheist Walks Into a Bar …
  • I circumvented them --- I played at bogle about the bush wi 'them --- I cajoled them; and if I havena gien Inch-Grabbit and Jamie Howie a bonnie begunk, they ken themselves. The Waverley
  • True, we are expected to moonwalk across the vast waters dividing technology from the masses and tiptoe back on egocentric eggshells, circumventing treacherous misunderstandings and political back-stabbing.
  • In this manner, it was argued that at the core of economic perseity, are non-predeterminable institutional innovations that act as channels of policy/regulatory circumvention. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Factually, at least from the complaint, it does not appear that the law firm "circumvented" anything, if by circumvent we mean devised a mousetrap to bypass the denial text string. B2fxxx
  • There was a vlei, too, which many circumvented, but we swam, and this helped our lead. Prester John
  • To partially rectify this system new diversionary cables were laid to circumvent the target conurbations.
  • When initially plunging into a project, Alex circumvents storyboards and goes straight to the computer.
  • And the less time we give that one to think of alternate arrangements, the less chance that he can circumvent our will. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • Witchcraft thus can not be easily applied to circumvent or violate customary norms of behaviour.
  • To circumvent those requirements, you must demonstrate nonimmigrant intent. Aggie R. Hoffman: Return to the U.S. after Immigration Violations
  • As important as behavioral and physiological alterations are as a means of circumventing toxins, direct metabolic detoxication is arguably the strategy which is the most effective and most commonly employed by phytophagous insects.
  • Well, let ` s just say that, I think that the producers of the show have kind of circumvented certain perspectives in order to create some very interesting television. CNN Transcript May 29, 2009
  • The company opened an account abroad, in order to circumvent the tax laws.
  • And there are also some (though not the present author) who believe that some epistemological view at a different level, such as a coherentist or contextualist theory of justification, can circumvent these problems. Epistemological Problems of Perception
  • Traffic wardens in Bristol who issue the most tickets are being rewarded with meals and pens to circumvent a ban on financial incentives. Times, Sunday Times
  • CalPIRG's focus has been campaigning for so-called customizable textbooks that circumvent the publishing companies. Theaggie.org
  • Several species of monogastric mammals (i.e., those having a stomach with only one compartment) circumvent the problem of cold and the scarcity of food in winter by hibernating. Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway
  • There is no suggestion that K2 was designed to circumvent the law in this way. Times, Sunday Times
  • Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. Boing Boing: November 19, 2006 - November 25, 2006 Archives
  • The company opened an account abroad, in order to circumvent the tax laws.
  • Universal's Cactus Shield copy-protection software can be "circumvented" by playing protected discs on a DVD drive/player, as opposed to a plain old CD player/drive. Boing Boing: December 30, 2001 - January 5, 2002 Archives
  • In practice, broadcasting organisations were easily able to circumvent the ban by using the voices of actors. Times, Sunday Times
  • To circumvent the problems of interpreting results in an organ with a diverse population of cells, it was decided to study the induction of polar growth in individual cells.
  • I tend to think more according the (b), though if it turns out that the computing resources required to circumvent this infeasibility are greater then what is available in the universe (an infinitely large computer) then this problem segues into (a) as well. Quantum Hyperion
  • Yet, in this instance, women evidently yoked custom to modernity in order to circumvent a Christian prohibition.
  • Over the years and in recent times, many rabbis have been criticized for helping women to obtain a "Get," Jewish divorce papers which archaically, although steps have been implemented to modernize and circumvent this predicament are granted by the husbands. Shira Hirschman Weiss: Non-Confrontational Clergy: When Inactions Speak Louder Than Words
  • The Corbett School District, set in a small town just outside of Portland, Oregon, recently opened a new charter school - within their already-existing public school - in order to circumvent the interdistrict transfer policy, pulling students from neighboring schools Gresham-Barlow SD and Reynolds SD, both with 11,000 and 12,000 students, respectively; Corbett has 800. Corbett's Charter Magic: Charter Trickery in Oregon
  • To circumvent this, it will be helpful if the seats are designed with a contoured shape since it will reduce or eliminate pressure points.
  • Jewish Jesuitism, the same practical Jesuitism which Bauer discovers in the Talmud, is the relation of the world of self-interest to the laws governing that world, the chief art of which consists in the cunning circumvention of these laws. The common denominator
  • Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulation.
  • To circumvent this problem, I have devised a system of price bands. The A-Z of Beauty Treatment
  • Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulation.
  • For 70 years it has had a Persian-language radio station, which is hard to block because it is short-wave; the BBC also has a Persian website, which is blocked in Iran but accessible via circumvention tools. In Skies Over Iran, a Battle for Control of Satellite TV
  • Her condition began to improve in tiny, incremental steps and she and her carers found ways to circumvent her disability using technology and willpower. Times, Sunday Times
  • It circumvents the standard formula cat and mouse mechanics to play a more painful and piercing game of liar versus eager listener.
  • But in order to become a part of medical history, parahuman reproduction and human genetic engineering must circumvent the recalcitrance of an antiquated culture.
  • The game had a single inviolable rule: obstacles were to be overcome, not circumvented.
  • The effectiveness of trade sanctions is questionable as they are easily circumvented.
  • We attempted to circumvent the need for microsomes by attempting a coupled transcription-translation-import system using freshly purified mitochondria instead of microsomes during the translation reaction.
  • Circumventing infertility with intracytoplasmic sperm injection: A case of transmission of a ring Y chromosome and true hermaphroditism. Publications of the Urology Division
  • And then you have a standard that circumvention is okay if you’re engaging in fair use, and that was clearly an issue in 1996. Archive 2009-05-01
  • It is sought so that Indian State can circumvent and bypass the real ideological challenges in the state.
  • Mathematical procedures, such as Fourier deconvolution and derivation, have been developed to circumvent this problem.
  • Bellaria's death obeys the principle brought out in Ovid, that the fulfillment of the wish to know the object of desire only circumvents the logic of desire and destroys the object itself.
  • USIA was disbanded, but the diplomats of the State Department have little interest in upsetting other countries by defending broadcasting or circumvention efforts. The VOA Is Losing Its Voice
  • The intertidal zones circumvent the two outstanding disadvantages of marine living.
  • Despite its neutrality, Belgium was attacked by the Germans in 1914 in order to circumvent the French fortifications along the Franco-German border.
  • The 32-year-old could move on an initial loan to circumvent the problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • He visualized the map of the El Alamein Line, where the Allies would make their last stand, This was one line Rommel could not circumvent, for at its southern end was the vast impassable Qattara Depression. The Key to Rebecca
  • Judge Jones found the CRC's supervision had been "circumvented" and the commission's NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • The 32-year-old could move on an initial loan to circumvent the problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • Therefore leasing was seen as a way to circumvent restrictive covenants. Principles of Corporate Finance
  • They opened an office abroad in order to circumvent the tax laws.
  • In theory, internet users in Europe could circumvent the restrictions by using software that hides where their computer is based. Times, Sunday Times
  • The company opened an account abroad, in order to circumvent the tax laws.
  • Audiovisual works included in the educational library of a college or university’s film or media studies department, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of making compilations of portions of those works for educational use in the classroom by media studies or film professors. Boing Boing: November 19, 2006 - November 25, 2006 Archives
  • And the less time we give that one to think of alternate arrangements, the less chance that he can circumvent our will. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • Yet even this lowly creature, which can circumvent sex and simply bud like a clump of daylilies, can mouth a Wnt sentence - and use it to guide development.
  • To circumvent this problem, I have devised a system of price bands. The A-Z of Beauty Treatment
  • We went north in order to circumvent the mountains.
  • The end-to-end anastomosis he cited certainly sounded like a desperate improvisation: attempting to circumvent her blocked digestive tract by taking a lower, cleared loop of bowel and hooking it up to her stomach. A Happy Marriage
  • Now, these folks should be fun to interview, but in order to get to them one must circumvent a gantlet of corporate shills with their characteristic high-viscosity personalities.
  • On the other side are the easily deluded, the ones who believe that a hit single or a television spot circumvents money to actually purchase happiness.
  • I guess Wilkinson was furious that his best performer would circumvent him and talk to me instead.
  • The settlers swiftly found ways to circumvent all restrictions. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • By setting up such a system yourself, you are potentially circumventing any security systems your company has in place.
  • The game had a single inviolable rule: obstacles were to be overcome, not circumvented.
  • But unfortunately the Act is framed in such a way as to permit it to be circumvented.
  • If we are to circumvent the immobilizing effects of political fatalism and cynicism, the political imagination must find a basis for hope in the future.
  • The fleet plans to circumvent an Israeli economic blockade on the Palestinian territory, despite Israeli warnings not to do so.
  • He circumvented their objection to the plan by having one of their own members propose it.
  • If you aren't interested in doubling your duty-free allowance, as the first cruise winds to a close, ask the purser about your boarding pass for the second cruise, and how to circumvent Customs if you want to go ashore.
  • Very interesting and surprising case if you are an employment lawyer or a consumer advocate, since it likely permits major employers are retailers of services and goods to the public, like banks and cable companies, to circumvent the risk of class actions entirely by burying arbitration clauses in adhesion contracts, which is what Bazzle eliminated. The Volokh Conspiracy » After Stolt-Nielsen v. AnimalFeeds Int’l Corp.: Deciding When Class Arbitration Is Permissible
  • The circumvented brokers and weighmen envisioned the declining fruit trade would also be reflected in diminishing Peshawar municipal octroi receipts. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • In theory, internet users in Europe could circumvent the restrictions by using software that hides where their computer is based. Times, Sunday Times
  • We might satirize, circumvent or hoodwink the great prince, but we don't mess with him. The Secret to Berlusconi's Dolce Vita
  • The intertidal zones circumvent the two outstanding disadvantages of marine living.
  • Article 20 is, as it seems to us, designed to circumvent this argument by providing a clear rule to apply in the case of documents produced by reprographic, automated or computerised systems.
  • Spammy hadn't been able to come up with anything that could circumvent that; if he had, he explained, no cashcard in the world would be secure. Boiling a Frog
  • Hell, one could make the argument that using a contraceptive is the same thing and just circumvent the whole fetus/life debate. Think outside the frame
  • On the other hand, aerosolized particles that circumvent the blood-brain barrier might someday serve as delivery vehicles for drugs.
  • You can combine the loops of Fairmount and Humphrey into a figure 8 once you climb the roughly 1000 feet to the plateau of the ridgeline which is an absolute treat of a ride, complete with twists and turns aplenty, lots of stellar old trees and houses, and stunning views to all sides of the city as you circumvent the loops atop the west hills. PezCyclingNews.com
  • However, technological measures are not absolutely omnipotent, and even most perfect technological measures may be circumvented.
  • The new ordinations also circumvent centuries-old protocol, said Jan Nunley, a priest who is deputy director of the Episcopal News Service.
  • The issue is whether movie clips are readily available without having to engage in circumvention. Archive 2009-05-01
  • They opened an office abroad in order to circumvent the tax laws.
  • Military planners tried to circumvent the treaty.
  • Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulations.
  • Also on April 27 measures laying down sanctions against speculation and the circumvention of price controls were announced.
  • The interface must be designed to protect against accidental and malicious attempts to circumvent the system's security policy. Times, Sunday Times
  • With respect to the settlement of disputes between two criminal entities, RICO is simply the state asserting it's monopoly over force against those who would circumvent it. A Theory of Government, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Watin circumvented this confusing and useless discussion by identifying his concern as only the terrestrial (i.e., material and opaque) colors. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • Lastly, if the screening router is circumvented by a hacker, the rest of the network is open to attack.
  • Rebecca Tushnet: I’m here to support the EFF’s proposed exemption for AV works on DVD where circumvention is undertaken for the purpose of extracting clips for inclusion in noninfringing noncommercial video. Archive 2009-05-01
  • There is no suggestion that K2 was designed to circumvent the law in this way. Times, Sunday Times
  • If he had been a seventeenth-century samurai I believe that he would refuse to hire ninja to circumvent the laws of Bushido. FLOATING CITY
  • The interface must be designed to protect against accidental and malicious attempts to circumvent the system's security policy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lawyer - One skilled in the circumvention of the law. Ambrose Bierce 
  • Lawyer - One skilled in the circumvention of the law. Ambrose Bierce 
  • Three or four awkward bits were circumvented; a couloir or gully full of snow mounted; and then there was a long climb up a moderate slope toward where a ridge of rocks stood out sharply, with snow sloping down on either side, the ridge running up far into the mountain; but before they could get to this a deep bed of old snow -- "firn" Melchior called it -- a great sheet, like some large white field, had to be passed. The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
  • Experimental studies have confirmed that folates are highly convulsant if the blood-brain barrier is circumvented.
  • Where the new pay roads met the old free ones, people often circumvented the tollgates a practice called “shun-piking” that, in one humble opinion, would have been more cleverly termed “spurn-piking”. The King's Best Highway
  • Voters will have a thumb marked with indelible ink to circumvent the problem of incomplete electoral registers.
  • The game had a single inviolable rule: obstacles were to be overcome, not circumvented.
  • In part as a way to circumvent this ban, the two launched an organization that remained a gadfly in wildlife conservation circles for the next three decades.
  • In Africa the poet introduces Curio inquiring after the story of Hercules and Antaeus, which is recounted to him by one of the natives, and after - wards relates the particulars of his being circumvented, de - feated, and killed by Juba. The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets
  • The settlers swiftly found ways to circumvent all restrictions. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • At this time, the postal express service was also established to circumvent theft.
  • The court held that the statute did not invalidate the tenancy agreement but merely regulated its circumvention through the imposition of fines.
  • These devils will scale heaven to circumvent us to our ruin", said Hawkeye; "keep him in play, boy, until I can bring" killdeer "to bear, when we will try his metal on each side of the tree at once". The Last of the Mohicans
  • It hopes crowdfunding will circumvent these obstacles and create new opportunities.
  • The company opened an account abroad, in order to circumvent the tax laws.
  • He said the move was staged by Democrats to avoid investigating what he called a concerted effort by Perdue to circumvent the laws so the campaign could hide flights offered by donors who had already exceeded the $4,000 maximum donation per election. WCNC - News - World
  • Indian netizens faced with the ban would have to resort to cunning methods to circumvent the block.
  • And it blatantly circumvents the interdistrict transfer process. Archive 2009-09-01
  • Kasrils said he still "agonised" over his decision to lead a group of ANC marchers through a hole in the stadium fence in a bid to circumvent the security cordon preventing the crowd from entering Bisho. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Whereas, the use of anti-circumvention measures to by pass these locks is often prohibited; and Blind Canadians adopt copyright resolutions
  • Quod postquam auditum est, tum vero ingens metus nostros invadit; credere se proditos a Voluce et insidiis circumventos. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
  • The 32-year-old could move on an initial loan to circumvent the problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • Using video, we were able to disrupt stable, everyday causalities, and to circumvent the logic that negates the existence of fanciful signs or places of superstition in our environment.
  • Sound recordings, and audiovisual works associated with those sound recordings, distributed in compact disc format and protected by technological protection measures that control access to lawfully purchased works and create or exploit security flaws or vulnerabilities that compromise the security of personal computers, when circumvention is accomplished solely for the purpose of good faith testing, investigating, or correcting such security flaws or vulnerabilities. Boing Boing: November 19, 2006 - November 25, 2006 Archives
  • Lastly, if the screening router is circumvented by a hacker, the rest of the network is open to attack.
  • The problem in banking is that ingenuity is invested in schemes to circumvent regulation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Meetings can be packed, democratic decisions circumvented, dissenters smeared and threatened, cheques forged and money misappropriated.
  • The problem in banking is that ingenuity is invested in schemes to circumvent regulation. Times, Sunday Times
  • He had a deep contempt for the bureaucratic mind and took particular delight in circumventing bureaucratic obstruction.
  • Ironically, therefore, Wallerstein's attempt to historicize the concept of a world system has been circumvented by his acolytes.
  • Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulation.
  • It is easy to see this in the case of a tendentious joke in which the joker, by dressing up his obscene thoughts or aggressive impulses in humorous guise, is circumventing his own internal inhibitions.
  • Forthcoming EU legislation could criminalise Europeans who circumvent copyright protection.
  • They opened an office abroad in order to circumvent the tax laws.
  • The court found that third party service techs who used the key without StorageTek's permission "circumvented" to gain access to the copyrighted code in violation of the DMCA, even though they had the explicit permission of the purchasers to fix their machines. Boing Boing: July 4, 2004 - July 10, 2004 Archives
  • Mr. Weller, junior, that "circumvented" was "a more tenderer word" than "circumscribed," the remark was at least as silly as it was sublime. Alarms and Discursions
  • [3577] Jovius concludes, it is almost fatal to great princes, through their own default or otherwise circumvented with envy and malice, to lose their honours, and die contumeliously. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • In theory, internet users in Europe could circumvent the restrictions by using software that hides where their computer is based. Times, Sunday Times
  • The concept by which state and local law enforcement agencies still circumvent the Missouri Constitution is known as "adoptive forfeiture. Wired Top Stories
  • They left after an excellent breakfast, circumventing Hamburg and crossing into Denmark, driving up the road to Holding and then on to the island of Funen, crossing on the ferry to Korsor, across the island of Zeeland and finally reaching Copenhagen. Hilltop Tryst
  • The second is philosophical naturalism, which says that everything in the universe is governed by natural law and nothing ever circumvents that law.
  • Even in states that prohibit intrastate sales of raw milk, some people have tried to circumvent the law by "cow sharing" or "cow leasing.
  • it was a device which would enable every unrecognised state to circumvent the fundamental principles of our law and, as such, would be contrary to public policy, being ‘a colourable device’.
  • Traffic wardens in Bristol who issue the most tickets are being rewarded with meals and pens to circumvent a ban on financial incentives. Times, Sunday Times
  • But even if we can circumvent the collapse problem, the more serious difficulty of this point of view is that it appears to be impossible to understand how specific observed values q, q², q³, ¦ can emerge from the same Relational Quantum Mechanics

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