54 collocations for circumvent

In Boston the law firm of Bowen & Hare was puzzling itself beyond reason in the effort to anticipate and circumvent the plans of the firm of Bosworth, Newnes & Grapewin, London, E.C.; while on the other side of the Atlantic Messrs. Bosworth, Newnes & Grapewin were blindly struggling to do precisely the same thing in relation to Messrs. Bowen & Hare.

Now, the disaffected aimed at revolutionat carrying out, completely the game of "puss in the corner," and it became necessary to set up some new principle by which they could circumvent the old fundamental law.

The following facts will show that the latter have not scrupled to resort to the most dishonest and unmanly intrigues to effect the removal or to circumvent the influence of such men.

Wolves attack the horses, and Cameron circumvents the wolvesA bear-hunt, in which Henri shines conspicuousJoe and the "Natter-list"An alarmA surprise and a capture.

He knew whom his mother had in mindRemedios, the daughter of the richest man in towna rustic, the latter, with more luck than brains, who flooded the English markets with oranges and made enormous profits, circumventing by instinctive shrewdness all the commercial combinations made against him.

With the young girl's warnings ringing in my ears, I felt that my one chance of safety and of circumventing these criminals lay in my seeming ingenuousness and complete guileless-ness.

Ptolemy began to congratulate himself on having completely circumvented his daughter in her efforts to protect herself against his designs.

He caused it to be bruited about that Bianca had tried to circumvent his death!

This sealed Ippolito's fate, for Alessandro at once took steps, not only to checkmate the action of the deputation, but to circumvent the destruction of his rival.

Marcus the heretic is accused by Irenaeus, to have inveigled a young maid by this means; and some writers speak hardly of the Lady Katharine Cobham, that by the same art she circumvented Humphrey Duke of Gloucester to be her husband.

Thither the enemy also followed, and although, since their late success, they entertained the most sanguine hopes from an open trial of strength, yet they endeavoured to circumvent the enemy by a stratagem which they had before practised with success.

The grand political maxim of the Shereefian Court is, the exclusion of strangers; to look upon all strangers with distrust and suspicion; and should they, at any time, attempt to explore the interior of Morocco, or any of the adjacent counties, to thwart and circumvent their enterprise, is a veritable feat of statesmanship in the opinion of the Shereefian Court.

One can circumvent this guard here, and when he is in these hills he is not far removed from a country well worth protecting by all possible ingenuity, a paradise open to all such as love pure air and wholesome strong exercise.

For these intellectual duels with Douglas, he possessed a power of analysis that easily outran and circumvented the "Little Giant's" most extraordinary gymnastics of argument.

It was impossible after the success of my bathers to go back to the bacon, so I thought I would circumvent the hauthorities.

If Heaven had given me a son, I'd have had him be like this one; and since it didn't, why here's my way to circumvent Heaven.

She set about to unmask his real intentions and to circumvent his hypocrisy.

The Government, in order to circumvent any unfavourable impression which this act might make in Bohemia, caused to be read each day for three days in the schools a decree of the Emperor, condemning the treachery of this regiment, the number of which was ordered for ever to be struck from the military rolls of the Empire.

Yet what could they do to circumvent these innovations?

There is a double pleasure in circumventing the legislation of your London wiseacres!"

That is the way to circumvent the man with an umbrella conscience.

Even at Los Angeles he had jumped off the train to circumvent Mr. Millard.

To circumvent this mountain the river had been flowing in a westerly direction; now it gradually turned to the northward.

Doubtless their feminine influence has circumvented nature to such an extent that no one would suspect that their men were under thirty-five.

One can circumvent this guard here, and when he is in these hills he is not far removed from a country well worth protecting by all possible ingenuity, a paradise open to all such as love pure air and wholesome strong exercise.

54 collocations for  circumvent