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contriving engineering maneuvering(US) manoeuvring(UK) negotiating finessing machinating manipulating masterminding plotting scheming framing wheeling and dealing wangling devising planning arranging intriguing conspiring designing cheating swindling chicaning deceiving tricking fudging defrauding conning duping bamboozling bilking hoodwinking suckering misleading stiffing diddling fleecing ripping off cozening influencing convincing persuading inveigling tempting urging beguiling brainwashing bribing coaxing coercing controlling directing exploiting jockeying playing steering swaying compelling gaming hacking rigging affecting circumventing doctoring outmaneuvering(US) outmanoeuvring(UK) forcing upon imposing foisting palming off passing off inflicting upon thrusting upon fobbing off shifting on to dumping offloading wishing forcing compelling to accept palming getting rid of saddling with unloading burdening someone with lumbering someone with fiddling falsifying altering distorting massaging tampering misrepresenting cooking perverting juggling fixing flimflamming tampering with interfering with cooking the books collaborating cooperating coordinating dealing networking organising(UK) organizing(US) bargaining consulting discussing haggling powwowing making a deal cutting a deal pulling strings hammering out a deal holding talks making arrangements coaxing out extracting obtaining wheedling drawing out getting out cajoling charming enticing flattering talking blarneying courting drawing worming inducing luring soft-soaping sweet-talking More

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This lip required the most finagling to get it looking just right.
We alternated between finagling pieces of sannakji and taking shots of soju.
Unlike those creations, their phalanges took a little more finagling to get right.
But to get the first employee reviews on Glassdoor took some creative finagling.
Their only way of supporting themselves is by finagling money out of powerful men.
However, we never know how much financial finagling there's been until after it collapses.
Fortunately, after about 10 minutes of finagling, she said she was able to get it out.
And after a little more finagling, both of the babies were free from their chilly, sandwich dungeon.
If they're not used to talking about their desires, this conversation might take some finagling, so come prepared.
With enough finagling you can get it to play fetch, but picking Chip up turns him angry and mean.
After a long saga of denial and finagling, Blatter was finally banned from soccer for eight years in December.
Take a look: Of course, installing the replacement cases will require a bit of screwdriving (and possibly some finagling).
The finagling over the Republican tax plan was pretty ferocious last week, but it's probably only just getting started.
So while your disappearing act may have been successful, finagling your big, surprise reappearance might be trickier than you imagined.
After some finagling, 200 more went on sale the next day and sold out in a minute and a half.
She convinced me to start a savings account and get better health insurance, no matter what financial finagling it took.
Meeting the prime minister might require some finagling, but one man is walking across Australia to try to do so.
Chris Murphy's 15-hour filibuster, capped two weeks hand-wringing, finagling and partisan gridlock which typically embraces Congress after mass shootings.
For years, tax hawks have railed about companies finagling statutes to whittle down their bill to Uncle Sam — to no effect.
And once you're in, make sure all the finagling, strategizing, and befriending was worth it; have yourself a damn good time.
One of those women is Chelsea, who ruffles feathers by finagling some extra time with Luyendyk, according to this sneak peek. 5.
We can already see how self-satisfied you are for "putting one over" on the Republicans by finagling this deal with Trump.
Democracy often provides a vast improvement in governance in foreign lands but bribery, finagling, and bombing are poor ways to export freedom.
Nor does the big-buck finagling rival smarter versions of this material, leaving the '80s excesses as the program's main calling card.
This must have involved a lot of finagling because I was penniless at the time — I'm not sure how I pulled it off.
The Allies only rewarded his finagling after the war by deciding that the art expunged from German museums didn't have to be returned.
Some of the justices have echoed predecessors who said this form of political finagling is the business of legislatures, not of the courts.
Although Chuck is troubled by his father's behind-the-scenes finagling on his behalf, both men see opportunity in Axe's alpha-dog flailing.
But you know, Jaime, Paul (Bertone), Marcus, Joe—there was a bunch of finagling to try to get Halo 3 and up and running.
While lawmakers — and Trump — had been finagling what an appropriations package should look like, millions of people in these regions are waiting on aid.
He ended up finagling his way into a VIP pass, made a copy for BZ and the two strolled into the show the following night.
But again and again, Musk's snark on twitter in addition to the actual insult spoke louder about his intention than either of the lawyers finagling.
Instead of finagling with bobby pins to secure her base, she simply taped a plain black headband on the inside of her cap with scotch tape.
Ross (with the help of his coauthor, Neil Martinez-Belkin) writes about finagling his way onto "Monster," which—unbeknownst to him—features Vernon on the intro.
Of course there's no chicken item on McDonald's breakfast menu right now, so implementing such an item nationally would involve some finagling on the franchisees' ends.
Like virtually all kids born in this century, mine are digital natives, and they were both successful at finagling their own smartphones once they hit sixth grade.
In this case, we had a C or a D version that went to Eastern Europe, and it took some special finagling to weave that one back together.
This is an impossible thing to dress for, like finagling the proper outfit for a day that starts out 90 degrees and sunny and ends 55 and rainy.
The app's easy-to-use grids come in either pre-formatted templates or allow for freestyle finagling, so users can get as creative as they'd like with their layouts.
The themers in the NE and SW corners took a bit of finagling, but they, too, fell into place, using a few cheaters to make it all come together.
Their behind-the-scenes West Wing-style finagling comes with some theatrics, particularly when a coalition of congresswomen storm the Senate gates to demand a delay on Thomas' confirmation.
They do require some finagling when you first put them on — they go over the ear and need to be twisted in — but once they're in there they're comfortable.
They wind up bit players in the Sturm und Drang of it all, overshadowed by financial finagling and designer wrangling, when they should be the focus of the conversation.
Tax experts suggested to the paper that while some of the finagling done by Trump and his family was legal, they have doubts about other aspects of their strategy.
It seemed like the word was out that, with just a little finagling, fringe contenders could qualify in the category and face a smaller field in their quest for awards.
True, Luca Pisaroni, a proven scene stealer himself, portrayed the Count compellingly, his rich, solid bass-baritone projecting cleanly, his lustful finagling written on his every oily snoop and gesture.
And this god's dilemma, the way he has enslaved himself, as he tells Brünnhilde, by finagling with covenants he is supposed to enforce, came through achingly during this heartbreaking scene.
Not only do you have to style an outfit, but you also have to actually go through the trouble of finagling your way into the perfect top/pair of pants/bra.
As a businessman Trump was known for finagling suspicious bargains and fleeing steep bills, all in the interests of getting more for less, living larger than he otherwise might and enriching himself.
For those who do not mind tinkering, do-it-yourself instructions for finagling Windows Media Center onto a Windows 10 PC can be easily found online, but success with the project may vary.
In one of the funnier episodes, Sanders engages in a heated Hollywood battle with Ben Stiller (who plays himself) over finagling a spot in People magazine's annual sexiest-man-of-the-year issue.
He pitches in with the last-minute fall issue overhaul, somehow finagling the very rapid development of an app that will allow Scarlet readers to see themselves on the cover of the fall issue.
The embrace of Trump's alumni says that finagling proximity to power, getting your face on TV and having your name trend on Twitter are accomplishments in and of themselves and will always pay off.
A few seasons into The Mary Tyler Moore Show's run, young women were constantly sending Brooks and Burns scripts, or finagling meetings with them through, say, a mutual friend or even a shared dentist.
Though friends in their early years, the two men would end up on opposite sides in the Great War: Ward hauling casualties with the British Ambulance Committee, Casement finagling German support for an Irish revolution.
If you put your wireless charging base on your coffee table or next to your bed, you can easily pick up your phone, answer a text, and place it back without finagling with the cord.
It's happened before: The Obama administration reduced the payroll tax to 4.2 percent in 2011 and 2012, after finagling the cut through a divided Congress, but it went back up to 2000 percent in 240.
You can also get a physical recorder and use a hollow ear bud with a built-in microphone to pick up sound at your ear, but that can prove uncomfortable and requires some extra physical finagling.
Mr. Joseph's play will no longer premiere at the Alley, but thanks to last-minute finagling by Mr. Gladden, it will open at the nearby Quintero Theater at the University of Houston on the original Sept.
How could we possibly have confidence in a plan to take away health care entirely, with a dubious promissory note to come up with a better (maybe) plan after we've witnessed years of Republican finagling and failure?
With some finagling, I was able to pull it out with just a little bit of tearing — but the whole saga of course meant I hadn't been able to finish up all the work I had to do.
After finagling meetings with the United Nations refugee agency and the United States Embassy so she could better understand the resettlement process, she returned to Yale and, with another student, founded IRAP — the "I" then standing for Iraqi.
Through Zaev's political finagling, the EU and the government of Macedonia was forced to make a dubious political settlement whereby Zaev's principal political opponent, the popular Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, was forced to resign 100 days prior to elections.
On a quick note, people will complain that the recommended play space for Touch room-scale is significantly smaller than the Vive but I had no problem accommodating a 12×12 foot area with three sensors after a bit of finagling.
It was another big moment in Sheehy-Guiseppi's journey to the NFL, which has involved finagling his way into a workout by claiming to know Alonzo Highsmith, the vice president of player personnel, and sleeping anywhere he could for a week.
Getting the remote desktop streaming feature on Go will require a little finagling for PC users who will also have to download the Bigscreen app in the Steam or the Oculus Store on desktop in order to fire up the app.
Since finagling the brush and wand with our fingers felt unhygienic — not to mention messy — we tried dragging the wand out of the tube at an angle; this bent the wand slightly, but left us wanting in the control department.
As it stands, the BCRA doesn't look like it has the votes to pass, and there isn't much finagling with the numbers that could get enough moderates on board without losing senators on the other side of the ideological spectrum.
By finagling her way into all the best parties and dancing on tables, Hilton became a fixture of New York City's late-'90s nightlife scene, which was (before blogs) exhaustively covered by paparazzi, gossip columns, and the New York Times Style section.
"If and when [a floor fight] goes on, it will be about finagling the delegates, appealing to their duty, to their country, to the conservative movement to nominate someone other than Trump," said Beau Correll, a Virginia delegate and member of Delegates Unbound.
Come fall, we're booking the cheapest ticket we can find (even if that means a red-eye to and from), finagling ways to take the least amount of vacation days possible, and making sure our homecoming will be complete with an already-decorated tree.
Other options include manually adding the printer to your Chromebook by entering its network address and other information, finagling the Chromebook to work with a networked printer or using a Chrome browser extension to get the software to talk to the hardware so you can print.
Mr. Grimm is in a thuggish league of his own, remembered by many not for his financial finagling but for having threatened in 2014 to hurl a NY1 reporter from the balcony of the United States Capitol for having the temerity to ask a fair question.
After finagling one, I made my way inside the theater, where you are meant to hand over your smartphone in exchange for a "DAU"-issued device programmed to guide you through the visit — uniquely tailored to each person based on answers to an elaborate and emotionally invasive questionnaire.
Corey seems convinced of Beach's significance, but he nonetheless comes off as a kind of oddball antihero, along the lines of Pizzoli's Tricky Vic, but less menacing: Believe in your dreams, kids, and spare no effort as you go for it, even if it means finagling your way around the law!
Taft moved then-Lt. Gov. Jennette Bradley into Mr. Deters' job by appointment, hoping she'll hold the spot for Republicans in 2006. And then the governor appointed his development director, Mr. Johnson, as lieutenant governor. The finagling has simply been rampant.
The band appeared on Saturday Night Live in 1995, thanks in large part to the finagling of fellow Canadian and Kingston-area resident Dan Aykroyd. A fan of the band, Aykroyd appeared on the show just to introduce them, despite John Goodman being the host of the episode. The band performed two songs from Day for Night, "Grace, Too" and "Nautical Disaster".
Frustrated by backroom deals and late night finagling after the press corps went to bed, she brought a webcam to her committee meetings in the Legislature, and was eventually dubbed "Lady Sunlight" by the newspapers. The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government awarded her the William S. Dixon First Amendment Freedom Award. New Mexico's only conservative think tank, the Rio Grande Foundation, awarded her the Liberty Award.
Holton, p. 171 > The few scraps of letters and memoranda Gowen that shed some light on this > seem to indicate that he was impatient, even bored, when details of real > railroading practices came to his attention. It was corporate power and > financial finagling that interested this complex man. . . . Gowen's > financial rewards were meager, and while he did attain considerable public > attention and the trappings of his office, this dynamic leader ultimately > was consumed by his final failure and his career ended in tragedy.
Roger is selfish, cynical, cruel, and thin-skinned. Having his feelings hurt usually spurs the creation of his egos and schemes. Roger typically displays a lighthearted, carefree temperament while at the same time engaging in his freakish grossness, outrageous malice, and rascally shenanigans. Crude and brazen, Roger has no qualms with randomly saying and doing whatever is on his mind, having little to no sympathy for anyone who might suffer as a result of his actions, and regularly misleading and finagling others to achieve his desired ends.
While Fully Completely began an exploration of deeper themes, many critics consider Day for Night to be the Hip's artistry most fully realized. The sound here is typically called "enigmatic" and "dark", while critic MacKenzie Wilson praises "the poignancy of Downie's minimalism." On the follow-up tour for this album, the band made its only appearance on Saturday Night Live, thanks in large part to the finagling of fellow Canadian and Kingston-area resident Dan Aykroyd, who appeared on the show just to introduce them. Aykroyd, who is a fan of the band, had personally lobbied SNL showrunner Lorne Michaels to book them as a musical guest.
Courcey leads an ambush patrol that kills the Viet Cong mortar crew of four, which included one of the women found by the river. The next morning, Barker travels to Saigon to meet with Colonel Minh, the military chief of the region, and tries to persuade Minh to send reinforcements of at least 300 ARVN troops to Muc Wa. But the corrupt Minh refuses, claiming that he needs the troops in Saigon to prevent a potential coup. After some reassurance and finagling of Colonel Minh, the Vietnamese Colonel informs Baker that the requested troops will be released in exchange for 1,500 155mm howitzer shells. That evening the outpost is attacked.
James Calhoun was first elected in 1794 under the old Baltimore Town government with a group of town commissioners, and continued as the new first mayor under the new City Charter in 1796–97, when the City was incorporated as the "City of Baltimore" (occasionally entitled officially as the "Mayor and City Council of Baltimore") under the authority of the General Assembly of Maryland which had originally authorized the port in 1706 and the creation in 1729 and laying out of a town in early 1730. Calhoun continued to serve for another seven years until 1804. Serving as the "county seat" since finagling a scheme to move the courthouse, replacing old Joppa in 1767 of surrounding Baltimore County which had been "erected" (authorized) in 1659 as the fifth county designated in the Province and first county in northern Maryland. The City was separated from the adjacent County by the provisions of the adoption of the new second Maryland Constitution of 1851 and became an independent city with the same status as the other 22 (later 23) counties of Maryland.
The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s By John Brooks Guterma, a Financier Who Lost an Empire New York Times April 9, 1977 A Finagling Financier New York Times February 18, 1960 In 1959, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Guterma with failure to file financial statements. He was arrested after he booked a seat on a plane to Ankara, Turkey. He was convicted and in February 1960 was sentenced to serve four years and 11 months in prison and fined $160,000 for violating federal securities regulations by looting F.L. Jacobs Company of $3.5 million.Financier Guterma Sentenced As "Looter" Madera Tribune February 18, 1960 Guterma Is Given 4 Years In Fraud; Fined $160,000 for Stock Deals and Is Denied Bail New York Times February 18, 1960 In 1959, Guterma had also been charged with failing to register as a foreign agent after taking $750,000 for the Mutual Broadcasting System to provide favorable coverage of Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic government.REPORT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE FOREIGN AGENTS REGISTRATION ACT OF 1938, AS AMENDED FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY 1, 1955 TO DECEMBER 31, 1959 Guterma pleaded no contest and was sentenced to eight to 24 months in prison and fined $10,000.

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