circumvented

This year, the news organizations have reported on the various ways in which coastal homeowners have used loopholes to circumvent Hawaii’s environmental laws, winning exemptions to protect their properties at the expense of the state’s beaches.

This plot, however, was circumvented and the instigators of the crime were punished.

Afterwards I circumvented it by weighting it with a stone or propping it up.

To be circumvented by cunning must ever be the fate, but never the disgrace, of the artless.'

I've circumvented the enemy too often not to know how to get up a plot.

Then he found that he had circumvented one obstacle only to be hampered by another.

But even these precautions were circumvented by sharpers who advertised their wretched wares as marked-down Ingersolls.

On arriving at the bottom, if circumvented by the projecting stones, they will usually abandon their work.

Major Grant could have circumvented the rebels with half the five thousand men assigned to him.

These notaries now advise as to the best way the law may be circumvented.