For many years, Mr Saleh has adeptly played on fears of chaos if he loses control in Yemen but his internal support is swiftly ebbing away.
Would he say he has adeptly created his own destiny?
He has adeptly implemented policies that have Japan's long-moribund economy moving again.
The Treasury Department, under Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and now under Secretary Jacob J. Lew, has adeptly handled the process of selling off government stakes in banks to maximize the taxpayer return while avoiding disruptions to financial markets.
"Through this well-reasoned decision, the court has adeptly responded to the exigent circumstances caused by the Legislature's failure to enact its own Congressional redistricting plan," said the lawyers, Richard Mancino and Daniel M. Burstein of Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
He has adeptly framed himself as less partisan than other politicians, and his speaking skills can inspire Americans as well as allow him to talk over the opposition and directly to them.
The producers of Benefits Street have adeptly edited their film in order to provoke a response from its intended audience.
It is not clear why Francis then felt compelled to call a synod to seek doctrinal clarity on these same issues, inviting the confrontation he had adeptly avoided.
More recently, writers from Diran Adebayo, Courttia Newland and Patrick Neate to Linda Grant, Amanda Craig and Cathi Unsworth have adeptly captured the city's chaotic rhythms in books as diverse and fascinating as London itself.
The Times noted that Manafort explained to Trump that as "as a onetime lobbyist he had adeptly won over rich and powerful business and political leaders, many of them oligarchs or dictators, in Russia, Ukraine, the Philippines and Pakistan".
It's pretty clear that both of them figured it out later, after Cheney and his allies had adeptly shaped the first couple of years of the U.S. response to 9/11 — the Patriot Act, the inexorable road to the Iraq War, and all the rest.
