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Sometimes the negotiating game can be played a little more skilfully.

What Jones does is to skilfully oppose life and art.

This report very carefully and skilfully analyses all the questions at issue.

As he backed the car round skilfully she looked through the side window.

So skilfully do men of government study human nature.

The embalmers worked skilfully, even as they brought it here.

They evolve from groups who have learned to work together skilfully (see page 77).

All presidents must move carefully and skilfully if they are to be effective leaders.

It was so skilfully done that I saw the king waver.

We will play our hand skilfully and see what opportunities are out there."

He very skilfully convinced everyone to give much more than what their original intention was.

It was done skilfully and I doubt many in the crowd noticed.

In those few minutes she'd simply been reacting to the mood he'd created so skilfully.

She was wearing a great deal of eye makeup, skilfully applied.

Britain has been resisting much of this, but none too skilfully.

She drew him away skilfully to a sofa near the fireplace.

Lots of tricks from her novels, and other people's used very skilfully.

They have to be used skilfully to serve the purpose of communication or expression.

But he was skilfully taught, and the approach was very personal.

People changed whatever they could and learned to cover their asses even more skilfully.

Molly drove skilfully back down the road, taking the short cut to what she had already grown to think of as home.

Many of the paintings have been skilfully restored and are well displayed.

Six lines of symbols had been skilfully painted or drawn.

And the claw, when operated skilfully, can actually be used to pick things up.

Russia is skilfully using its position as a monopolist on the European energy market.

The man had killed in the past, skillfully and quickly.

You have to make a movie like that pretty skillfully before I care.

If used skillfully, they could provide access to any part of it.

The lines on the hand were all done in red, quite skillfully.

It also became clear that I was being very skillfully led to hear and see the music in a particular way.

All are skillfully painted, but they do not mean a great deal.

At the time of his study, he was started to paint skillfully.

That being said, one can have some skillfully made dishes here.

The man took hold and skillfully hauled himself into the air.

He could see how skillfully the plan had been engineered.

Hanging on the wall, many skillfully made studies show the thinking behind this project.

"We've been under the gun for doing our job skillfully."

And it is done most skillfully at the glamorous high end.

Because they are skillfully trained, which gives each man the force of three!

Our people can very skillfully evaluate and put a price on it.

And has he been playing skillfully on the previous deals?

But no matter how skillfully you ride, falls are always possible.

She moved about in the darkness skillfully, knowing her way.

To do this he skillfully used to his advantage the resources available to him at the time.

But either way, this injection is clearly more skillfully done.

It is another example of how skillfully this event has been organized.

But throughout the afternoon, words and movements were skillfully united.

She had to field them quickly, skillfully, and without breaking a sweat.

She had skillfully backed me into a corner and I knew it.

I skillfully placed it far in the back under the sink.