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  • Evasion occurs when a taxpayer submits an incomplete tax return, according to the Swiss and Luxembourg way of thinking.

    J.P. Morgan may assert itself 2008

  • In the "Evasion," Jim is degraded to minstrel status not just by Tom Sawyer but by Mark Twain, who seems all too willing to jettison the moral and psychological insight that earlier made Jim (however sporadically) into a poignant, fully human figure.

    An Exchange on Mark Twain Gillman, Susan 1989

  • Accuracy/Evasion which isn't shown in the menu but is talked about in battle.

    IGN Complete 2010

  • The State of the Country so obviously called for independent Governments, and a total Extinction of the Royal Authority, and We were so earnestly urging this measure from day to day, and the Opposition to it was growing so unpopular, that a kind of Evasion was contrived in the following Resolution, which I considered as an important Step, and therefore would not oppose it, though I urged with several others, that We ought to make the Resolution more general, and Advize the People to assume all the Powers of Government.

    John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961

  • Online Tax Evasion Shifts Tax Burden onto Low-Income Families: And it's just economically unfair to make it more expensive to shop at a local store than to shop online.

    Nathan Newman: How Amazon's Unfair Practices Are Worsening State Budget Crises Nathan Newman 2011

  • Evasion of employment taxes shortchanges the social-security funds, which in turn make skimpy reimbursements to hospitals.

    Health System Reflects Greece's Ills Charles Forelle 2011

  • According to several former top officials involved in the discussions seven years ago, they did not know that the military training program, called SERE, for Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape, had been created decades earlier to give American pilots and soldiers a sample of the torture methods used by Communists in the Korean War, methods that had wrung false confessions from Americans.

    Shock the Conscience 2009

  • The CIA developed a list of enhanced interrogation techniques that were based on the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape Program used to prepare our military men and women in case they should be captured, detained, or interrogated.

    Dick Cheney's Wars: The Former Vice President on 9/11, Iraq and the Future 2011

  • Online Tax Evasion Shifts Tax Burden onto Low-Income Families: And it's just economically unfair to make it more expensive to shop at a local store than to shop online.

    Nathan Newman: How Amazon's Unfair Practices Are Worsening State Budget Crises Nathan Newman 2011

  • Online Tax Evasion Shifts Tax Burden onto Low-Income Families: And it's just economically unfair to make it more expensive to shop at a local store than to shop online.

    Nathan Newman: How Amazon's Unfair Practices Are Worsening State Budget Crises Nathan Newman 2011

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