Sentences with phrase «evasive by»

That way if the witness attempts to shift blame to his or her attorney, I can pull out the verification and show that the witness is being even more evasive by attempting the shift blame to the attorney for answers that witness verified under oath.

Critic says responses are evasive BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Two Tappan Residents are questioning Orangetown officials about the existence of old sewer lines at an abandoned Army base on Western Highway, and are not satisfied with answers the town has given them so far, claiming the responses are more mystifying than -LSB-...]

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Last December, a report by a Bard College research group on drone incidents said that from December 2013 through September 2015, there were 28 incidents involving airplane pilots taking evasive action to avoid a drone while flying.

No evasive action was taken by the airline crew, and the plane safely made its landing without further incident.

Rather, her point is that the twentieth century might have been more humane if the ideologues of the nineteenth century had their sledgehammer theories softened, perhaps even overturned, by the twisting, evasive, allusive verbal ambiance of Yiddish, a folk tradition of language that testifies to the uncertainties and fragilities of life.

For America as a whole, he took a hit by giving an obviously false or evasive explanation for why Texas ranks just about last on Medicaid payments.

Church members were ticketed to ensure seating, but others had to find fragments of nourishment where they could, with some sneaking into already packed balconies through fire escapes and other evasive subterfuges, and with Fosdick's own seat filled by a standee as soon as he entered the pulpit.

Luke reports it, pertinently for content if somewhat awkwardly from the point of view of style, as told by Jesus in answer to the evasive question «Who is my neighbor?»

Busch's deft evasive maneuver kept him from disaster and put him in striking position of the battle being waged for the checkered flag by leaders Helio Castroneves and Ryan Hunter - Reay.

Diamond's answers were evasive throughout most of the session and he repeatedly called MPs by their first name, much to their obvious irritation.

Even an instinctively evasive Prime Minister can not be wholly obtuse when questioned by MPs for two hours as May has been several times.

And by repeatedly trying to paint Khan as slippery and evasive, the Tories hope to paint the the election as a choice between Goldsmith's «plain - speaking» and Khan's untrustworthiness.

He felt he had been misled by too many evasive promises in the past, and also feared that Blair was secretly manoeuvring to betray him by supporting a successor other than Brown, probably David Miliband, then the environment secretary, or John Reid, then home secretary.

It's not a good look: the evasive tactics, the actions which require decoding by political journalists to find their meaning, the use of managerial terms like «stakeholder» — this all reflects the problems Labour had in the past, where professional middle - class politicians conducted themselves in a way which alienated the party's supporters.

«The assertion by the Remain side that we haven't answered these questions is an attempt to suggest into the public's mind the idea that there's something shifty or evasive about our position, when in fact we've been very clear: we don't want to be in the single market, we do want to be in a free trade area.

Even the NAACP expressed its disappointment in the actions by the District Attorney and the evasive right of obtaining Justice for African - Americans in Westchester County.

In 2015, not only did co-host Alex Brooker get Nick Clegg to admit that his tuition fees betrayal kept him awake at night, but he did so by pressing a buzzer that sounded «bullshit» whenever Clegg was evasive.

If they continue to be evasive and fail to comply with criminal summon issued on them by the Federal High Court, Lokoja to appear on 28th March, 2018 to answer to the criminal charges of Conspiracy and Unlawful Possession of Prohibited Firearms against them, the Force, will obtain Warrant of Arrest for the arrest of Senator Dino Melaye and Mohammed Audu and will definitely declare them wanted throughout the country and on INTERPOL platform for them to be arrested in any country where ever they are sighted and handed over to the Nigeria Police Force for continuation of their trial.

It's a disastrous effort by Mr Brown, who appears dull and evasive.

Simulations of how large - scale cosmic structures form suggest that galaxies are connected by a vast network of dark matter, the evasive substance that makes up most of the universe's matter but interacts with regular matter only via gravity (SN Online: 10/11/17).

To nail down these evasive genes, teams led by human geneticist Jonathan Haines of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and neurologist Jan Hillert of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, compared several thousand MS patients from the United States and Europe with their family members and healthy controls.

It is one step up from communicating by email and so more will be revealed about the person through such things as tone of voice, evasive comments if any and not having time to consider what they say, as they would in an email.

Younger singles are more likely to friend their date on Facebook, communicate by text after a date, and be evasive about their availability if they're not interested in a second date.

Despite his enigmatic, evasive energy — as unnervingly played by Flynn, his heavy gaze never quite seems to meet anyone else's — the tinderbox attraction between them is immediate.

Each one of these Alex Haley series have been relatively surprising in their, by network TV drama standards, genuineness, with this series continuing the «Roots» mythlogy's tradition of being more evasive of subtlety issues than it could have been, though not quite as much as it should have been, for although this series is generally genuine, there is the occasional manipulative moments, some of which go so far as to dip into melodrama.

Anderson is impish and evasive for the most part, but comes close to getting real when a question sparks an admission that he lost his way after Magnolia, followed by a contemplative silence.

From a script directed and co-written by John Krasinski of TVs «The Office,» Krasinski and his real - life wife, Emily Blunt, play the parents, conveying their silent characters» dread in frightening sequences that make us squirm over their quietly evasive tactics.

And Plenty, a passive and emotionally evasive intellectual without much glamour and only a modicum of wit, is an unlikely romantic hero, which only adds to the sense that the movie is proceeding by countercliche — even if it still winds up honoring the broader conventions of romantic comedy.

It was an evasive one to begin with, first applied by the French film critic Nino Frank in 1946 to four recent Hollywood films: The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Laura, and Murder, My Sweet.

Consistently literate, thoughtful and insinuating, the mini also boasts an intriguing and deliberately evasive lead performance by Sarah Gadon, work that again probably shouldn't be compared to the juggernaut that is Elisabeth Moss» Handmaid's Tale work.

The original score by Ola Fløttum (for) is one of the years most haunting and evasive composures.

The fundamental problem is the character of Bryan, who by now seems bulletproof, bomb - resistant and ninja - like in his evasive qualities.

If PCS3 determines that the possibility of a frontal collision with a pedestrian is high under certain conditions, it prompts the driver to take evasive action and brake, by using an audio and visual alert, followed by brake assist4.

Vehicle Detection: When the PCS3 determines that the possibility of a frontal collision with that vehicle is high, it prompts the driver to take evasive action and brake, by using an audio and visual alert.

-- Evasive Steering Assist: when a driver deliberately or instinctively performs an evasive maneuver, this system assists by adding calculated steering torque to aid in steering wheel mEvasive Steering Assist: when a driver deliberately or instinctively performs an evasive maneuver, this system assists by adding calculated steering torque to aid in steering wheel mevasive maneuver, this system assists by adding calculated steering torque to aid in steering wheel movement

Evasive steering assist responds to sudden steering movements (such as when the driver swerves to avoid an obstacle) by adding «precisely calculated steering torque to support the driver's effort.

Faster steering and counter steering during an evasive maneuver results in less vehicle instability, supported by Dynamic Stability Control (DSC).

When the driver deliberately or instinctively performs an evasive manoeuvre in a dangerous situation, this function can assist by adding precisely calculated steering torque to support the movement of the steering wheel.

Evasive Steering Assist complements the Active Brake system by «precisely calculating steering torque to support the movement of the vehicle.»

As a result, the direct - steer system also improves handling safety in critical situations - for instance when taking sudden evasive action - as the field tests conducted by the Mercedes engineers demonstrate.

If its computer detects the driver attempting an evasive maneuver to avoid hitting an object from the front, the XC60 will make the turn as effective as possible by braking the inner wheels, adding steering input and then braking the outside wheels after the maneuver to settle the chassis.

New functions also include an Evasive Steering Assist which helps drivers evade pedestrians if they are detected in the car's safety zone, Car - to - X Communication which warns other drivers of impending hazards, and Remote Parking Assist where drivers can use a smartphone app to maneuver the car into tight parking spaces or garages by smartphone.

By stock we mean the tablet physically had a piece of paper glued to the screen that showed the Android operating system.The Asus representative told us that the phone will be likely shipped with Google Ice Cream Sandwich OS, but the design specs of the Padfone were NOT finalized by any means and they were quite evasive about a street datBy stock we mean the tablet physically had a piece of paper glued to the screen that showed the Android operating system.The Asus representative told us that the phone will be likely shipped with Google Ice Cream Sandwich OS, but the design specs of the Padfone were NOT finalized by any means and they were quite evasive about a street datby any means and they were quite evasive about a street date.

In the face of such evasive tactics employed by some in the credit repair industry, the question emerges whether the loopholes in present statutes necessitate the enactment of new legislation.

Double - tap sidesteps improve the 8 - Way Run evasive arsenal, even if a lack of definition (read: something like VF's categorisation of linear, semi-circular and full - circular attacks) sometimes makes it difficult to judge hitboxes in 3D space; even a perfectly timed evade can be stuffed by some of the annoying auto - tracking moves or falsely advertised area attacks, though most linear hits can still be strafed and punished accordingly.

Scouts will have new abilities, all assisted by the monocular, a tool that allows for evasive and long - range stealth attacks.

Battlefront 2's executive producer John Wasilczyk, associate design director Dennis Brannvall, and producer Paul Keslin were all on - hand to answer questions from the reddit community, and the whole thing passed on by with the effortlessly evasive slickness of a well - oiled corporate PR machine.

Today Self - portrait, by turns deadpan, defiant and evasive, is one of his best - known works, and it's at the heart of his first U.S. retrospective which opened first at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles last spring, before traveling to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and, finally, to the Whitney, opening this week.

Prince keeps the viewer at arm's length by removing the image from its source, and by doing so, he undermines the entire narrative function of painting, creating instead an utterly new work that's all the more alluring because of its evasive presence.

In excavating an evasive past, Ronald Lockett dug up lessons learned by modern anthropologists — the people who specialize in studying the likes of him.