| Meetings can be packed, democratic decisions circumvented, dissenters smeared and threatened, cheques forged and money misappropriated. |
| Ironically, therefore, Wallerstein's attempt to historicize the concept of a world system has been circumvented by his acolytes. |
| Inevitably one's thoughts turn to the matter of how, or even whether, the plans can be circumvented or stopped. |
| Experimental studies have confirmed that folates are highly convulsant if the blood-brain barrier is circumvented. |
| We broke the law on a weekly basis, when we circumvented the army's roadblocks in the roads. |
| To them, the law is simply a pretext for achieving desired results or an obstacle to be circumvented for the same purpose. |
