end-run
Example Sentences
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Three states, meanwhile — Arizona, Nevada and California — argue the Navajo Nation is attempting to make an end run around a 2006 Supreme Court case that divvied up water in the Colorado River’s Lower Basin.
From Seattle Times
Arizona, Nevada and California contend the Navajo Nation is making an end run around another Supreme Court case that divvied up water in the Colorado River’s Lower Basin.
From Seattle Times
A pension fund and two individual investors who have sued said in their proposed class actions that creating the preferred stock was an attempted end run around common shareholders.
From Reuters
But reflecting the president’s determination to discourage end runs around Buy America rules, agencies are closely scrutinizing such requests.
From Washington Post
The delays have prompted private companies to try to collect this information on their own, doing an end run around the IRS' unreliable systems.
From Salon
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