The Bloomberg administration's move to bypass the Council, and shift the fight to a forum where the industry's influence was weaker, then, was a cunning maneuver, borne of months of mounting frustration with an industry that, administration officials concluded, would never reach an agreement.
Maybe it's more like chess, a game of strategy and cunning and maneuvers that require the players to think five and six moves ahead of their opponents.
This is a cunning tactic.
All the rhetorical groundwork the president has now laid — on Iran, Israel-Palestine, the Muslim world — will come to nothing if high principle is not matched by street-smart cunning and maneuver.
"It's a very cunning political maneuver," Cairns said.
After a cunning political maneuver, the Kauai County Council has overridden Kauai Mayor Bernard Carvalho's veto of Bill 2491, freeing the way for the GMO-related bill.
His flip-flopping might have been a cunning, ratings-grabbing maneuver to generate suspense in a season when "American Idol" has been suffering some audience slippage (and in fact, Wednesday night's broadcast on Fox drew about a million more viewers than last year's finale).
The book centers on the power of an unaccountable public agency, cunning legal and political maneuvers and brilliant engineering innovations devised to address extraordinary structural challenges.
His belief that politics had its own rules so shocked his readers that the adjectival form of his surname, Machiavellian, came to be used as a synonym for political maneuvers marked by cunning, duplicity, or bad faith.
Geffen, who left DreamWorks in 2008, is called "a cunning macher who lived to maneuver all the players on the board according to whatever scenarios he was advancing".
Using clear cues and kinetic body language, he elicited a performance that conveyed the restless sweep and psychological ambiguity of the score, with its world-weary choruses for oppressed Russian peasants, its scenes of officially instigated public rejoicing as Boris ascends the throne thanks to maneuvering by the cunning Boyars.
