Sentence examples for guile over from inspiring English sources

But Fardy gives you fearless brute strength and guile over the ball.

Tuilagi's brief to bolster his skill-set has drawn comparisons with the All Blacks centre Ma'a Nonu, who added much guile over the years after initially making an impact courtesy of an enormous amount of raw power.

Maybe, after each three years of inconclusive combat, each of the two sides should select an elite team to contest control of a small village using both weaponry and political guile over a month's time.

So it is the one removed first if people start showing off to much or if the start using force over guile, or gymnastics over cunning and safeguarded bravery.

To call the police paranoid and homophobic is a little strong, but they have not showed much guile or judgement over this.

Northern Ireland have always been more graft than craft and Magilton must challenge a footballing culture which still favours power over guile.

His fans, who are in the vast majority, argue that he saved science from the axe and used his considerable guile to win over the support of Mr Osborne.

But Australian indie mobile developer Two Lives Left (TLL) has not been won over by crowdfunding's guiles.

The Taliban took over Buner through both force and guile — awakening sleeping sympathizers, leveraging political allies, pretending at peace talks and then crushing what was left of their opponents, according to the politicians and the residents interviewed.

Old-time cops complained to me that the days of taking a crime and solving it with sweat, guile and a detective's nose are over.

Another manifestation was the energetic building in the early 470s of a proper set of walls for the city of Athens, an episode elaborately described by Thucydides to demonstrate the guile of Themistocles, who deceived the Spartans over the affair.