On all counts, his candor seems more commendable than the simplifications and evasions of his critics.

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But might the gaps and evasions in Iran's nuclear story point to a still more worrying conclusion?

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So far trimming and too-clever-by-half evasions have been found out every time, while radical clarity has paid off.

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Anyone facing an audit is unlikely to get away with the evasions now in display in the federal bureaucracy.

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Similar alleged lies and evasions are the basis for the obstruction of justice and related charges against Stewart and Bacanovic.

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But there was still a pervasive feeling that, despite all the evasions, those involved in the trade were doing something deeply wrong.

ECONOMIST: Slavery

Eden resigned soon afterwards, his health wrecked, his reputation in tatters, his lies and evasions damaging the country's always tendentious reputation for fair play.

ECONOMIST: The Suez crisis

Mr Brown's evasions over the Ecclestone affair and the budget leak are at odds with the image he projects as a politician of moral incorruptibility.

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Pathogens evolve to evade the evasions.

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