Sentence examples for playing its hand from inspiring English sources

By playing its hand close Boeing just might launch an all-new plane five years or so before that.

Iran appears to be playing its hand shrewdly, offering financial help and sympathy but insisting that there are no strings attached, according to Mr. Samie and others.

What is important is that we move forward with the best possible opportunity of ensuring that we have prosperity here and across the Kingdom.Bagehot: Are you impressed by the way the SNP is playing its hand?PR: No.

For a president who came to power arguing that America needed to get smart about negotiations, maybe it is time to look at how the Chinese government is playing its hand.

But it's almost certainly wrong to guess Apple — one of the world's biggest companies, known for playing its hand close to its chest — has lost its way in this area.

Iran is playing its hand well.

Yet it plays its hand so much more lightly than that suggests.

To what degree this happens in Chile depends on many things: how many badly built buildings like those described by my friend are found to have come down on their inhabitants; how the soldiers and looters behave; the decisions that Bachelet makes in the next few days; and how the incoming Piñera government plays its hand as it takes power.

And it's also continuing to play its hand in areas where it hopes to continue to stake out a claim.

"It needs to play its hand".

A cynic might say that the British government played its hand as best it could, and with an eye to other cases; that it dragged out proceedings for years so future claimants are now deceased; that its release of potential evidence files at Hanslope has been less than transparent, despite public claims to the contrary.