circumvented

Meaning

of Circumvent

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The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. Milan Kundera

In his memoirs Nixon declared that to achieve his ends the "institutions" of government had to be "reformed, replaced or circumvented. In my second term I was prepared to adopt whichever of these three methods, or whichever combination of them, was necessary." Richard Nixon

A German derivatives dealer had commented to Der Spiegel that "The Maastricht rules can be circumvented quite legally through swaps," and "In previous years, Italy used a similar trick to mask its true debt with the help of a different US bank." Source: Internet

“And did he know that the Department of Justice was being completely circumvented by his director of the FBI, Jim Comey, in league with James Clapper. Source: Internet

FECA and the Watergate amendments All of these efforts were largely ineffective, easily circumvented and rarely enforced. Source: Internet

General Motors' headquarters had genuinely tried to adhere to the 1957 ban, but their Chevrolet division had also constantly tried to work around it, because the other manufacturers had openly circumvented the ban. Source: Internet