Christie's smartly began the evening with the Gaffé collection, which proved quite an an endurance test for Mr. Burge, who patiently and skillfully maneuvered scores of bidders who just didn't want to give up.
Placed under U.S. sanctions in 2014 for his role in the Kremlin's aggression against Ukraine, Rogozin has long been the most recognizable face of Russian far-right nationalism and has skillfully maneuvered between maintaining his appeal with his ideological base and offering his services to the Kremlin when required.
These horses are so skillfully maneuvered by puppeteers that you forget they don't have a circulatory system.
A volatile President Trump will believe Big Boys Can Make Peace, but a skillfully maneuvering President Putin might well overplay, and we might stumble into conflict.
She spotted a delivery van whose driver was skillfully maneuvering through heavy traffic, one hand grasping the wheel, the other manipulating chopsticks.
"If you feel assertive enough, ask your fellow diners, 'Do you guys mind if we don't get the bread basket?' If you don't want to make waves, skillfully maneuvering the basket to the opposite end of table helps keep it out of reach".
That is good news for the top contender, Herman Van Rompuy, the former Belgian prime minister who is president of the European Council, which represents the 27 governments in the European Union, and who has maneuvered skillfully for a greater role in coordinating economic policy.
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.
But then, alas, Ginny takes the mound for her first big-league game and no matter how skillfully the cameras are maneuvered and how hard Bunbury works at it, it's very clear she's just not a Major League pitcher.
In the treacherous atmosphere of courts, he was able to maneuver skillfully.
The Secretary of the Navy's report for the fiscal year 1891 noted that "useful experience" had been gained by the Squadron of Evolution in the training of commanding, navigating, and watch officers in skillfully and safely maneuvering vessels in formation and in restricted waters.
