end-run
Example Sentences
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Who made an audacious end run around protocol to give the president some really bad news?
“It’s an end run around the normal legislative process.”
From Los Angeles Times
The article criticizes the administrative maneuvering used to extend Chattah’s tenure, describing the interim-to-acting appointment process as an “end run” around normal Senate confirmation procedures.
From Los Angeles Times
“What they can’t do democratically they are now trying to do via illegal executive fiat and do an end run around Congress.”
From Salon
“This is an end run,” said Shira Scheindlin, the former federal judge who issued the ruling that led to the federal consent decree.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
