Sentence examples for a clever maneuver from inspiring English sources

After the e-mail messages came out, Dr. Jones said he had meant "trick" only in the sense of a clever maneuver.

Indeed, it is tempting to wonder if the choice of Mr. Kissinger is not a clever maneuver by the White House to contain an investigation it long opposed.

It looked for a long time as if Kramnik was going to take this game, but a clever maneuver with queen and knight forced chances of perpetual check that Kramnik couldn't stop.

But if Steinbrenner claimed Ramirez, took his bloated contract and suddenly gave the Red Sox increased financial flexibility, Boston officials would have viewed that transaction differently, as a clever maneuver they controlled from the outset, and they would have been exchanging high-fives on Yawkey Way for days.

I will say that the ability to upgrade its players' firmware was a clever maneuver by Toshiba and the upcoming HD DVD release of 300 should inject some much-needed life into HD DVD sales.

Others, initially concerned that the Nationalists' sudden swing behind the referendum idea would make a confrontation with Beijing inevitable, now see the switch as a clever maneuver that has robbed Chen of a key campaign weapon.

It is a fairly clever maneuver on Rove's behalf -- forcing Obama to make a judgment on executive privileges that could have ramifications later in his presidency.

As a policy maneuver, the moratorium is a clever tactic pulled off by the anticapital-punishment side.

The clever maneuver had an extra beneficial effect.

And in a clever marketing maneuver, bottles are marked with the year the blossoms were harvested.

One crucial move was to shift assets off its books at the end of each quarter in exchange for cash through a clever accounting maneuver, called Repo 105, to make its leverage levels look lower than they were.