Negotiators continued the task of developing a work plan for addressing the key issues of transparency and linking finance to reductions, but sources predicted an end to the groundwork-laying backroom diplomacy that the Obama administration had become so adept at, largely because that requires knowing what will happen in the future.
Ms. Kahn is also quite adept at making largely nonfigurative paintings.
Ms. Stone, the state budget director, said that for the moment, the state budget, even with its flaws, is still balanced, with about $2.6 billion in reserve, largely because Mr. Pataki has been adept at building up surpluses over the past five years.
The younger Gill learned keyboards and music theory largely by ear and became adept at transposing songs to different keys at the drop of a hat, a handy skill at the Apollo when performers suddenly change keys or rearrange their songs onstage.
A number of plot points appear to hinge on this sort of happenstance, coincidences and accidents that shouldn't work but somehow do, largely because Somerville is so adept at keeping the action moving — and at reminding us that our lives rarely conform to neat and tidy patterns.
In conversations with the Obama administration, Arab officials have raised the specter of the Muslim Brotherhood, which some say has begun to hijack the protests that began among largely secular young people in Egypt adept at using Facebook and Twitter.
But adults -- at least those over 25, whose brains have largely completed development -- are more adept at weighing costs and benefits in the distant future, said the Institute of Medicine report.
Nick and Ben were far more adept at this than I was, largely from having spent time reporting in conflict zones, I suppose.
Qi was of humble origins, and it was largely through his own efforts that he became adept at the arts of poetry, calligraphy, and painting.
These are largely autonomous in their everyday decisions, not much good at administration, but adept at extortion; for example, levying bribes from the majority of businesses in Russia that require licences, permits and so forth.
