The army's threats are part of a skillful effort by the government to intimidate opposition leaders and their supporters, including the student movement, Otpor, or Resistance.
I am reminded of a line by historian Rebecca Solnit from A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster: "Disaster shocks us out of slumber, but only skillful effort keeps us awake".
The first was Joaquín Navarro-Valls, a psychologist and journalist who, as the Vatican spokesman under John Paul, was known for his skillful efforts to shape John Paul's image in the media and the world.
Conservatives, frustrated by what they regard as Mr. Obama's skillful efforts to paint himself as a moderate, are all over the airwaves denouncing him as "the most radical, pro-abortion of any American president," as Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker, said on Fox News.
A skillful restoration effort has wiped away the wens and wrinkles of a century, leaving a Richardsonian Romanesque landmark for all to admire.
"We also commend the skillful and determined efforts undertaken by you and your foreign policy team to end Israeli-Palestinian violence and to renew negotiations between the parties," the letter says.
Debbie believes excellence is never an accident: it is the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution.
Leaning such a skillful dance demands a lot of effort and practice, all things that go into a sense of awakening the spirit and body that might slow down, or reduce, the effects of Parkinson's.'".
In addition to providing medical assistance, Doctors Without Borders has a reputation as a highly politicized group, particularly skillful in achieving publicity for its efforts.
They weren't the child drawings of your usual schizophrenic outsider artist, but efforts a little more skillful, on the order of tattoo art, oil on canvases around four by six feet in size, crowded with images but highly organized, all on Biblical themes, mostly dire and apocalyptic, and all with the titles printed neatly right on them.
Not only has she set a personal example of courage and scientific integrity, but her skillful and persuasive organizing have mobilized the efforts of scores of others and, not coincidentally, raised the bar for the coverage of evolution in biology textbooks.
