dodging

• “Now, this is what you call dodging a financial bullet.”

  Staff Blogs

• “After some difficulty in "dodging" the sentries, which General Simpson, with his most unpopular and unnecessary policy, insists on placing everywhere, we reached the Fourth Division just as the Guards were marching down to their places in reserve.”

  Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol

• “Postal Service as it seeks congressional help in dodging much of a $5.5 billion payment due next Thursday into its retiree health benefit fund.”

  The Washington Post: Eye Opener: Obama's green czar leaving? Defense contractors regroup, Filipino flag flap

• “Or possibly, after the 9/11 attack, Gore would've sent a crack team of FBI agents to Afghanistan (probably headed by Hillary since she's experienced in dodging sniper fire on landing) to arrest al Qaida.”

  The Truth Revealed!

• “If "that" didn't refer to "violating the laws of nature," you were being disingenuous in dodging the question.”

  The Memory Hole

• “Until this assignment, Corey has always been lucky in dodging the fatal bullet.”

  The Lion's Game: Summary and book reviews of The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille.

• “Many times, in secret, dodging from the men guarding the cornfields, I went with my grandmother, also at dawn, armed with rakes, sacking and cord, to glean the stubble, the loose straw that would then serve as litter for the livestock.”

  José Saramago - Nobel Lecture

• “On these missions, the Crusaders carried little or no munitions to increase their maneuverability and airspeed in dodging the SAMs that were released.”

  Wallace, MIchael W.

• “Here is the task for "big hearts and big brains," and it is a task that big brains have heretofore been much more agile in dodging than courageous in meeting.”

  Public Ownership of Public Utilities

• “The fright with which Mr. Drim had retreated, gained no proselyte to his opinion; Mr. Girt, the perfumer, asserted, significantly, they were only idle travellers, of light character; and Mr. Firl, when in dodging them, he saw they went into a bathing room, offered to double his wager that it was to make some assortment of their spoil.”

  Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth

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