In the 21st century the narrator remains central to the performance of much Indian traditional music, and the virtuosity of a skillful singer rivals that of the instrumentalists.
He is a regular presence on CNN and MSNBC, where his skillful, unrelenting attacks of rivals can come across as off-script in a campaign that bills itself as above all that.
Second, through diplomatic maneuvering, a skillful leader could create an environment in which a rival state would declare war first, thus forcing states allied with the "victim" of external aggression to come to the leader's aid.
The skillful tactics of the old vizier eventually made his rivals powerless, and all the rebel pashas were executed (February 1659).
By 1177 he had become leader of the Birchlegs, rivals of the incumbent ruler Magnus V. A skillful military leader, Sverrir was proclaimed king in the Trondheim region and soundly defeated the forces of Magnus in 1179.
In so doing, Mr. Carron pulled Crédit Lyonnais from the reach of one of France's most skillful banking strategists, Michel Pébereau, the chairman of BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole's big rival, who had been angling to buy Lyonnais.
For weeks, the leader of Turkey has been trying to undermine his regional rival, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, with a skillful drip of intelligence leaks linking the prince to a gruesome crime: the killing of a dissident, Jamal Khashoggi.
A skillful politician, Mr. Noor has also gained the upper hand over some formidable political rivals, solidifying his power in the region as they left to take up posts in Kabul, including even Mr. Karzai's ally, the Uzbek militia leader Abdul Rashid Dostum.
Their strikes were skillful.
