Sentence examples for skilful operator from inspiring English sources

Mr Osborne is a skilful operator who enters 2016 at the height of his powers.

He is seen as a skilful operator and a reliable pragmatist, but is also thought to lack empathy or a real understanding of how ordinary people live.

As director of a voluntary social-affairs agency called "Communities in Action", he lives at the interface between local politics, religion and the NGO sector, and is a skilful operator in that territory, which requires strong nerves because of the keen competition for funding.

Yet though employment has held up recently (see article), few economists doubt that, like the rest of Europe, Germany needs greater liberalisation and more competition if it is to sustain its enviable prosperity in the long run.Ms Merkel is a skilful operator (politicians who oppose her often seem to change careers).

Although Collingwood's six for 31 remains the best figures for England in one‑day internationals, his Test match bowling gets little regard and, on the surface, not without justification: 16 Test wickets seem to belie a skilful operator who can swing the ball or bowl cutters.

Sir Philip, a skilful operator who used to run the Anglican synod (whose current politics are far nastier than Westminster's) and keeps out of the media, has concluded that Mr Prescott had not done much wrong, but that he should have registered the trip in the register of MPs interests - just as Tony Blair and William Hague (to name but two) should also have done.

It has been reported that residual stand damage decreases substantially by careful planning and skilful operators (Cline et al. 1991; Pinard et al. 30).

He was a skilful, thoughtful operator who relied on clever positioning, assured ball control and intelligent distribution rather than the brute force favoured by many defenders of his era.

The difference is that in Mr Chrétien's case these were in his own party.In a story that echoes the rivalry between Britain's Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Mr Chrétien, a skilful political operator, blames Paul Martin, his successful finance minister, for forcing him out of office.

The effect, Johnson predicted, would be to cripple the national Democratic Party for decades, a bleak but accurate assessment from one of modern America's shrewdest and most skilful political operators.Robert Caro's explanation for this contrast is that LBJ had a true and deep compassion that would always surrender to a true, and deeper, pragmatism.

Rather he was a cool, well-balanced operator, skilful and intelligent enough to compensate for a lack of extreme pace – and he was very, very hard.