Sentence examples for little sleight from inspiring English sources

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Part of the answer lies in a little sleight of hand.

"You have very large commercial enterprises, Wells Fargo, Wachovia, with this little sleight of hand in the way they structure ownership," he said Wednesday in an interview.

If 1960, then, makes a convenient birthday for African independence, with a little sleight of hand 2010 becomes a 50th anniversary for African music.

"Riveting," pronounces Spencer, "with Mark Warren … getting them down with some panache and, I suspect, more than a little sleight of hand".

I don't know if that's a joke because it doesn't make me laugh, but it's a nice little sleight of hand question and answer that I thought did a good job of illustrating my point.

The network, trying to keep its momentum going, also did a little sleight of hand, calling large parts of its coverage "Live from the Front Lines" (the words crawl on the screen above the news crawl), even when it was showing tape of the President talking in Florida or a weather report from a Stateside studio.

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But a little sleight-of-hand — and a name that refers to peace in English and Arabic — allowed for an ethnic conversion after the Danes moved out or married into other tribes.

Act as though all that's needed for a transformation is a little managerial sleight of hand.

So the implication is the same: with a little legislative sleight of hand, end-to-end encryption is made to stand outside the law.

It was this little intellectual sleight of hand that really opened my eyes, as I realized Tolle's book is an almost flawlessly executed advertising campaign: it creates a need for itself and offers itself as a solution to that need.

With a little programming sleight-of-hand, the search engine can be steered first to the straightforward, somewhat duller headline, according to some search optimizers.

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