Sentence examples for be able to finesse from inspiring English sources

"It suggested that he would be able to finesse conservatives," Mr. Zogby recalled in an interview.

The government hopes in future to be able to finesse such politically embarrassing judgments as the court's refusal to allow the UK to deport the radical Islamist cleric, Abu Qatada.

Second, if he succeeds in getting more than one question on the referendum — so that voters could choose, say, between the status quo, the status quo plus more powers for Scotland and full independence — he might be able to finesse the issue.

But on the balance of the evidence it is hard to avoid the conclusion that Turnbull was walking both sides of the street in the hope he would be able to finesse a complex situation after an election when he emerged from the campaign in possession of a personal mandate.

Later, he reassures his Pentagon fellows that they'll be able to finesse the tag-on commitment to begin a withdrawal from Afghanistan by July 1, 2011 by pointing to successes that could lead to victory with more time and troops.

Mr. Bramble said that "what's not clear was how this trader was able to finesse the system".

After a few months of research, Mr. Claman was able to finesse the provenance of the duplex, a combination with an adjacent apartment.

But in the last century, scientists have been able to finesse the broad brushstrokes of our ancestors' descriptions of epilepsy to discern numerous forms.

As both were lying favorably, South was able to finesse successfully in both suits and make an overtrick for an excellent matchpoint score: 4,967 of a possible 5,606.

It puzzled me how much she considered her own history to be immaterial, and if she never patently diminished herself, she was able to finesse a kind of self-removal by speaking of my father whenever she could.

He has been able to finesse the Grubman problem by hiring Sallie Krawcheck Sallie Krawcheck to head research.