Sentence examples for manage a Putin from inspiring English sources
(It doesn't even manage a Putin joke).
As for Barack Obama, he cannot politically manage a shift in tone on Putin's Russia with only weeks to go in the U.S. presidential campaign.
Putin is also certain to have observed that in an election year Obama does not want to manage a confrontation with Russia over its role as an apparent accomplice in the slaughter in Syria.
Managing a thug like Mr Putin, who would distrust any American president, was never going to be easy.
Bravely ignoring a festering row over widespread racism in the Russian domestic game, Putin even managed a rare, Botox-constrained smile as he declared the tournament would be "a good chance to show an open, multi-faceted Russia".
"You'll manage," Mr Putin responded.
Scrambling: Managing a Downsized Team.
David Cameron did manage to meet Putin in Moscow this month, the first contact for four years.
Pressed on whether Obama was managing to punish Putin, Blinken claimed that the Russian president had already seen "a real cost" economically, and that the US president would continue working to "bring the world together in support of Ukraine, to isolate Russia" on a visit to Europe next week.
