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28 examples of Evasive in a sentence

What the Actor does with this information depends on its policy, which is stored in the strengths of the connection, between the odor detectors and the motors that power the fly's evasive actions.
So the next time the fly finds itself facing the same odor again, the connection is strong enough to turn on the motors and to trigger an evasive maneuver.
Let's see, George Kennedy, the cigar chomping "tough guy" mechanic of the original has somehow been promoted to airline captain, and, after the Concorde comes under missile attack (don't ask), he resorts to stunts like shooting a flare gun out the cockpit window despite (presumably) flying at Mach 2, all the while doing the sort of wild high-G evasive maneuvers that would have ripped the wings off any real airliner, never mind the effect of the passengers!
A woman and her aunt go to Scotland to locate her evasive fiancé.
The lumbering oaf of a movie that resulted--largely due to a magnificent cast of Anglo actors completely unable to carry off the evasive Latin mellifluousness of Allende's characters, and a plodding Scandinavian directorial hand--was so uncomfortable in its own skin that I returned to the theater a second time to make certain I had not missed something vital that might change my opinion.
Just count the times Tierney's incredible car companions swallow one lame excuse after another for his evasive and violent acts.
The makers couldn't be more evasive about the actual origin of this gigantically over-sized critter!
The following day the two Detectives visit Andrews but he is unhelpful and evasive and seems to be hiding something.
Except for a couple of evasive flips and spins here and there, the is only one fight sequence in this movie, and it comes about an hour into it.
But the debate about which policies could boost demand remains inadequate, evasive, and confused.
But it is surprising that a Polish government a half-century later would be no less evasive about the past.
At hearings before a US Senate subcommittee, BP CEO Tony Hayward’s evasive maneuvering and failure to answer point-blank questions infuriated Congressmen and the American public alike.
If we are to prevent the slow-motion car crash of rising AMR, our leaders must take evasive action now.
But the email row has highlighted some of the reasons people don’t like Clinton: To put it charitably, she’s been evasive in her responses to questions about what was undeniably a reckless act.
Until recently, the Bush administration answered with an evasive cliché: “as long as it takes and not one day longer.”
And to dismiss them as madmen is equally evasive.
News organizations in the United States have prioritized access to the corridors of power above all else, even when access is conditioned on avoiding uncomfortable questions or accepting evasive answers.
Annan's staff released evasive, confused statements.
Some of them argue that such a tax would lead to evasive reactions by market participants and have distorting effects.
But such evasive actions by market participants would be almost impossible if the G-20 stood united.
The press finds him evasive.
On August 31, Trump made similarly pointed – yet evasive – comments to Fox News’s Laura Ingraham.
Whatever the range of its flight, however evasive its trajectory (even up and over the Nautilus), the hapless flying fish always found a dolphin to welcome it with open mouth.
On one side stood the Political Resident of the State, planted there to teach him good government, and, above all, economy; on the other side that is to say, at the palace gates might generally be found a commercial traveller, divided between his contempt of an evasive debtor and his English reverence for a king.
To these inquiries Tarvin, for his part, returned an evasive answer, and felt that he was qualifying himself for his political career at home.
The answer was evasive.
"Do as you please, sir.""That is no answer; or rather it is a very irritating, because a very evasive one.
Hewent home to his meals, full of relenting resolutions; then, as soon ashe saw her, as soon as he met her eye--formerly so clear and frank, nowso evasive, frightened, and bewildered--he struck at her in spite ofhimself, unable to suppress the treacherous words which would rise tohis lips.