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Bishops obfuscate, cardinals equivocate and Church spokesmen prevaricate as the tide of media condemnation surges around them.
Why should we believe you when it is well known that all lawyers prevaricate?
They don't have the balls to admit that they were caught out, so they attack and lie and prevaricate and do everything to shuffle out from under it.
If we prevaricate and postpone this issue, the Council can continue to hide behind its inaction.
When it is an issue of animal safety, I believe that we cannot prevaricate on this issue either.
They are encouraged to delay and prevaricate because they know SFOR is uncertain of its future and its purpose.
It would do a great disservice to our Organization if Member States were to continue to prevaricate on this matter.
Your willingness to prevaricate the comments of Mr. Blundell are both disappointing and regrettable.
They can dodge or prevaricate or just hang up when dealing with a voice on the phone.
I consider it essential, if this state of affairs is to be brought to an end, for the international community not to prevaricate in the face of those who subsidise, promote and incite terrorism.
Mr President, as others have said, as General al-Bashir continues to prevaricate on the deployment of an AU-UN hybrid force in Darfur, we see the humanitarian crisis getting worse.
What the government and the Deputy Prime Minister demonstrated today is an attempt to prevaricate, to manipulate, to control, and to hide from the very principles that we should be trying to enhance, preserve and protect.
When a partial disclosure becomes public for the first time, corrupt individuals tend to prevaricate in order to conceal their involvement or the existence of misconduct.
One tends to prevaricate, to put things off.
But, big continental countries supervising this insular Oversea are very far from it, which prevaricate their understanding of the true constraints and stakes.
The government can prevaricate all it wants but the reality remains.
If CSOs, and the organisations that support them, prevaricate, not only will the eventual costs rise, but also vital capacity will be further lost in the delay.
He loudly opposes torture while his Republican colleagues prevaricate.
By removing this sentence, the resolution adopted could imply that the Union is not really prepared to act if Saddam Hussein continues to prevaricate, which is disastrous.
They sacrifice their own integrity on behalf of the faith that is melting away beneath them even as they continue to pettifog and prevaricate in its defense.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Do you say this to irritate and offend me, or do you prevaricate out of shame?
He told the truth, just as some boys quibble and prevaricate, simply and naturally.
He could not backbite, nor envy, nor prevaricate, nor jump at mean motives for generous acts.
Occasionally some child of sin would endeavour to prevaricate.
Thinking it professional to prevaricate, he murmured something about a nervous breakdown.
He was not there to prevaricate, and he told them his rank and name.
He should have no opportunity to prevaricate if I once challenged him.
To prevaricate with herself or with him was out of the question.
Florio was vain enough to prevaricate on a matter of this nature.
As regards your questions, however, I will not prevaricate nor deceive you, but will tell you without concealment all that the old man of the sea told me.
The Government can prevaricate no longer, patients can suffer no longer, staff cannot continue in this intolerable situation and strong, urgent action is required.
To squeamishly add almost, to prevaricate with five or maybe six, to stumble and say five or six or seven, is to lose credibility and control and possibly the trial.
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