evasion
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It can also delay payments and investment and use its long established sanctions evasion networks to keep trade flowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Earlier this year, ministers announced a £30m enforcement operation targeting high street businesses suspected of money laundering, tax evasion and illegal working.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Memory, desire and moral evasion all complicate the inquiry: It’s pointless, Sammy suggests, “to say that each consciousness is a whole world because each consciousness is a dozen worlds.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Davis was charged with six counts of tax evasion.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
I like to think that it isn’t weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, to let my lovers live and to unite them at the end.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
All that’s left are defensive denials, evasions of Nazi collaboration and the faint hope that something higher has survived.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
She added: "Families who have suffered deserve honesty, transparency and a full apology – not evasions and excuses."
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
The investigating police officer, Siri Bengtsson, is new to the force and a shrewd interpreter of the silences and evasions she encounters when questioning Skavböke’s wary inhabitants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
But his evasions are getting harder to maintain.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025
A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasions which that question deserves.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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