For example, when Texaco dumped oil sludge into the river in a remote Amazon community, it got away with it for decades because it was so remote and the population affected was so poor.
This time it was Gomes who got away with it - his ball straight out to Taylor was returned by the defender but the Brazilian stopper was able to gather.
It's got nothing to do with politics, it's got nothing to do with nuclear enrichment programmes... it has no relationship to any of the other, bigger issues.
Tens of thousands of people, for instance, illegally tweeted the details the British footballer earlier this year who took out a media gagging order (it was Ryan Giggs), and got away with it, most likely because the numbers of potential arrests were just too high.
At first sight this might suggest to some that the government has "got away with it".
There were no priority passes at Wembley, everyone got a ticket and got on with it.
Online gambling has always been illegal, even though people got away with it for years.
His assassins said by British officials to have had help from Russia's security service nearly got away with it.
Everything was up in the air when I returned but the boys have just got on with it.
Mr Dunbar is angry about the way that banks got away with it and argues that little has changed.
"He pushed the barriers completely and got away with it sometimes and didn't others, but he made some startling movies, " said.
They got away with it by underreporting sales, effectively lowering the rate.
John XXIII got away with it because he said it was in deference to his parish saint, John the Baptist, Melloni said.
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Riskily, his government favoured the Malays at the expense of the Chinese and got away with it without too much social unrest.
But such reservations have to be weighed against a mind-blowing ending, so bold I can hardly believe Darabont got away with it.
It was tough, but I was so high from having a baby and doing the competition, that I just got on with it.
He has got away with it, thanks largely to his rustic pugnacity, which he uses to needle the upper castes and charm the lower ones.
She could not pluck up the courage to complain and Phillips, who lived in the Gower village of Crofty, thought he had got away with it.
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Yet as commander-in-chief, he bears responsibility for the military shortcomings if, as some suspect, North Korea torpedoed the Cheonan from a semi-submersible vessel and got away with it.
"I thought I got away with it and won because I was only down by two going into the final round and was finding my range, " said Esparza, from Houston.
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That's why the oil spill was handled - that's why our economy, which no one should have been reelected on that, Republican or Democrat, that's why he got away with it.
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