Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
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Examples for "hedge "
1 Such financial products offer ways for investors to hedge risk, he said.
2 Market players said selling by hedge funds also weighed on the market.
3 The new hedge fund will be based in London, the paper said.
4 As a result, they are often bellwethers for hedge fund industry performance.
5 These figures also include the value of instruments used to hedge risk.
1 Boissière is on home territory: the south-west of France is duck country.
2 So I am happy that someone has the good sense to duck .
3 Kashyap was able to duck under his food cart just in time.
4 Enda made light work of his duck paté with port wine sauce.
5 One of the surgeons in white duck touched her on the arm.
1 A knee-length coat over a longer skirt does not work at all.
2 That has allowed Ford investors to skirt the pain of government oversight.
3 He shrugged; the tartan skirt looked unremarkable, which was the main thing.
4 A statement skirt with a casual top is a simple, modern look.
5 As soon as Aunt Rebecca gets the pleats basted in the skirt .
1 Of course, there was no way for them to dodge the rain.
2 The men in the place were obliged to dodge the flying sticks.
3 You can try to dodge the thing, but good luck with that.
4 And they wouldn't be able to just dodge onto some uninhabited island.
5 I was able to dodge its impact by ducking behind the breakwater.
1 Blaine, his rifle at high port, just managed to parry the thrust.
2 He did well to parry Byrne's powerful drive in the 26th minute.
3 He put up his left hand to parry the blow, but feebly.
4 She could parry no longer and must thrust if she would survive.
5 How can I, in the dark, parry a blow from the dark?
1 The wonder comes in the manner in which they elude the police.
2 However, feeling ready is what may elude you more until next week.
3 He can elude you; and will be acquitted by the general verdict.
4 That's actually a very simple answer, one that seems to elude many.
5 A home winner continues to elude the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
1 It's a classical political fudge , but important and welcome for all that.
2 A political fudge that ducks science is the likeliest outcome at Copenhagen.
3 Without an improvement, the pressure to fudge the numbers will only increase.
4 John asked for the Any Given Sundae with Cadbury's fingers of fudge .
5 Leonora Fenton-and sardines and toasted muffins and salad and fudge and coffee.
1 As a result, they increasingly circumvent global institutions by creating bilateral arrangements.
2 Reproductive technologies are often described as means to circumvent the body's biology.
3 He was very proud of his ability to circumvent a new law.
4 OUTA are furious that Christians helped the Gupta family circumvent immigration laws.
5 It might even encourage the use of methods to circumvent such rules.
1 Bragg hopes fast food restaurants won't try to sidestep any new policies.
2 He thought she would sidestep the question, but she met his gaze.
3 The state-backed company opted to sidestep a vote and cap related-party deals.
4 They should be glad of the chance to sidestep the trade tax.
5 The sidestep had taken me out of the way of the blast.
1 NASAA has said that crowdfunding could attract fraudsters who will bilk investors.
2 Want to bilk the government for millions in private security cash during wartime?
3 This gaffer contrived to ' bilk ' all the turnpikes in the kingdom.
4 A scam to bilk his father out of more money.
5 I don't bilk , and you won't know whether I do or not unless you come.
1 That way I put off going home until the last possible moment.
2 Lack of control could put off some possible bidders, the people said.
3 National elections can often dampen demand as buyers put off major purchases.
4 Torches flashed in the boats that put off in the terrible search.
5 However, Indians are currently put off by the 500 gram minimum requirement.
1 It need not be asked here by what means he evaded it.
2 All problems have solutions, even if they've evaded a generation of inquisitors.
3 The coach has evaded questions about his future, which cannot have helped.
4 Which brings me back to my question-theone you so cleverly evaded .
5 And just three minutes after that, the Frenchman yet again evaded Ramos.
6 Raidler evaded a direct question concerning the one subject in his mind.
7 Lysandra saw her shoulders heaving with exertion as she evaded another attack.
8 Had, over the years, evaded medication in the most creative of ways.
9 Had I not been I should have evaded responsibility, like the others.
10 He had evaded climbing the Pyramids and fled from the ostrich farm.
11 With a scream she evaded the captain and rushed to the door.
12 The wolfhound had evaded several outstretched hands and got to the buffet.
13 She looked me right in the eye and evaded the entire subject.
14 But the blood-hound of the press was not going to be evaded .
15 He thought that the provisions of the proposed amendment might be evaded .
16 The Anglican clergy evaded this plan by stepping up before the coffin.
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