"It's dangerous to assume that you can bring off a senior commander and all his men will follow," Mr. Waldman said.
Mike Nichols (@Mike_N15) @KidWeil Is there actually a limit to the number of guys you can bring off at the half in a friendly?
Unless Premier de Gasperi can bring off the feat of raising wager, holding down prices, and doing something about the unemployment, his Christian Democrat Party is bound to lose supporters to the Communists.
Story turns out to be not so important as the tumultuous minute-by-minute activity in the Bathtub, which, in the kind of coup that perhaps only movies can bring off, becomes part of the eternal life of the universe.
He is, of course, the only man who can bring off the slam this year, having won the first of the four, the US Masters, and he positively welcomes the extra pressure so imposed.
These were served as a side dish with a plainly cooked red mullet, and were a fascinating complement to the punchy fish – one of those wrong-but-right combinations that only a very inventive, very talented chef can bring off.
The American blueprint against England may closely resemble the one used in Belo Horizonte sixty years ago: concede most of the possession, hope to get lucky on a furious counterattack, hunker down to defend against the inevitable onslaught — and pray that the American goalkeeper, like Frank Borghi, can bring off a miracle.
The American blueprint against England may closely resemble the one used in Belo Horizonte sixty years ago: concede most of the possession, hope to get lucky on a furious counterattack, hunker down to defend against the inevitable onslaught and pray that the American goalkeeper, like Frank Borghi, can bring off a miracle.
Back in the early 1980s, Mr. Updike said in an interview that "there's a crystallization that goes on in a poem, which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't," that he wrote fewer poems than he used to and that he no longer wrote short stories with "the same ease — that sense of just being like a piece of ice on a stove".
In today's world-soccer climate, being the sixth-best team in England means having a manic-impulsive, billionaire Russian owner and a $50-million 50-milliono you can bring off the bench.
