Journalists have camped at Moscow airport for days, but caught no sight of their quarry.In outwitting his media and government pursuers, Mr Snowden is accompanied by Sarah Harrison, a staffer at WikiLeaks, a whistle-blowing outfit.
Sun's philosophy consists of a great many ingenious stratagems for outwitting an opponent.
Mr Rohani's offer of talks may be a delaying tactic, giving the centrifuges more time: in the past he has boasted of outwitting the West.
The modish scoundrel of the past seven years the immoral banker outwitting inept regulators—has been edged out by a returning blackguard: the tight-fisted boss crushing the hopes of honest workers with miserly pay.
A degree of self-censorship may also be at work: no MOOC operator is offering, say, a comprehensive course dealing with Mao's revolutionary excesses.Faculty staff in Nanjing were relieved to hear that Coursera offers technology to ensure that the person sitting the exam actually studied the course (outwitting ingenious cheats is a major hassle for Chinese universities).
Even now, the wily Zimbabwean liberation hero seems to be outwitting his rivals, mediators and enemies in almost equal measure.
The 84-year-old Mr Mugabe, who has proved adept at outwitting his rivals over three decades, will doubtless seek to neuter the 56-year-old Mr Tsvangirai's lot.
Her somewhat fictionalized memoir, Ils partiront dans l'ivresse (1984; Outwitting the Gestapo, 1993), served as the inspiration for several film adaptations, notably Lucie Aubrac (1997).
The Chinese communists, like the German communists a few years earlier, were launched on a series of disastrous policies first of collaboration with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang in hopes of outwitting them; then of an equally fruitless alliance with the schismatic regime in Wu-han; then of attempts to seize power directly with their own resources.
We cheer on smart servants outwitting dull employers, from Jonathan Swift's "Directions to the Footman" to – some three centuries, two volumes, 1,400 pages and 90 stories (one per author) later – Fatou in the Willesden (Brondesbury, actually) of Zadie Smith's "The Embassy of Cambodia".
