Since the earliest days of the American occupation last year, Mr. Sadr has maneuvered skillfully, and often ruthlessly, to advance his ambition to emerge as Iraq's most politically powerful Shiite cleric, and thus as a potential claimant to outright power in a country where Shiites form a majority.
8 Fitz Lee had skillfully delayed the enemy's advance after the blue columns had begun to stream down Turner's Gap at 8 A.M., and at this time he was retiring slowly before them (O. R., 19, part 1, p148).
Skillfully drawn as those tableaus are, one yearns for Mr. Beatty to advance beyond his absurdist color photos of Winston's world, to do something more than slash our conventional notions into scraps.
The world's pulpwood reserves, if skillfully used, may meet the world's needs, especially if advances in pulping technique permit the use of hardwoods, sawmill waste, and other raw materials formerly rejected.
On actuarial charts, these men are finished, over the hill, "old-timers". On our chart, they're a breed apart, skillfully brushing past the well-fed youngsters, mysteriously oblivious to their own advancing years.
How DARE Israel be upset that the Arab enablers, spinners and propagandists have skillfully exploited images of the human shields that they cynically use as missile fodder to advance their anti-Israel, anti-Jewish fatwa.
Howe keeps trying to circle the Continental Army and Washington keeps retreating one way or another, pretty skillfully, helped always in his retreating by the fact that Howe is so slow to just advance and conquer.
In the year since the 9/11 attacks, the public fear and anger engendered by those acts have time and again been skillfully manipulated and exploited to create an atmosphere of permanent panic, hysteria and paranoia, in order to advance the domestic and international agenda of the hard right.
She comes alive as Cynthia, who advances the plot ("A certain very old, very valuable, very significant manuscript is missing") with some skillfully written, well-acted one-sided telephone conversations.
Mr. Elbaz skillfully deconstructed everything.
