But Felix, the wiliest of the bunch, slips within reach.
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Not even the wiliest, most enterprising female characters fare well.
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Ms. Pelosi is a wily negotiator — one of the wiliest.
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Breakingviews The world's wiliest takeover artists have found their biggest target yet.
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The wiliest strategy might be to poach trade negotiators from the European Commission itself.
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Take the work of Dorthe Nors, the darkly comic Danish writer, who is at her wiliest when she's most direct.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, once viewed as the wiliest politician in Washington, is on an epic losing streak: His candidate, incumbent Sen.
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The host and head-knifemaker on the Kiwami Japan channel is either the world's most extraordinary hobbyist or its wiliest supervillain—or both.
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It's a cutthroat game of survival of the fittest, or maybe of the wiliest, that has stoked the relentless evolution of borderland tech.
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The Iron Throne may be in contention, but the award for Wiliest Person in Westeros on Game of Thrones has always belonged to Petyr Baelish, a.k.a.
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Harvey Weinstein, one of the wiliest political progressives in a movie industry filled with them, recently moved "The Founder" from a planned postelection release to early August.
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While acknowledging that Soleimani's killing could trigger a fresh cycle of violence, one senior U.S. official said at the least it would deprive Tehran of one of its wiliest commanders.
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So while the accusations could well end Mr. Netanyahu's career after four terms in office, there are just enough variables that could allow the wiliest of Israel's political survivors to hang on to power.
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According to Christopher Soghoian, a technologist at the ACLU, the wiliest criminals already know to use disposable "burner" phones and, short of forgoing cellular communication altogether, there is no foolproof way for them to evade StingRays and Hailstorms.
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"Karimov is known for being one of the wiliest, most ruthless authoritarian rulers, not only in the post-Soviet space but in the entire world," said Steve Swerdlow, the director of Central Asia research at Human Rights Watch.
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Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president of Iran and a founder of the Islamic republic, who navigated the opaque shoals of his country's theocracy as one of its most enduring, wiliest and wealthiest leaders, died on Sunday in Tehran.
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"A young master" (20103), meanwhile, is your wiliest little cousin, the one who plays 22010-D chess in his mind and may yet grow up to possess the kind of Machiavellian mastery of the streets that will mean, in turn, that the streets can't defeat him.
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Her populist husband, Jared Kushner, who may be the wiliest of all Trump whisperers, has his own Harvard degree (his is undergraduate, while Bannon attended the graduate business school) and, as Daniel Golden initially reported in his eye-opening book "The Price of Admission," Kushner's ticket to Harvard was punched, despite questionable academic qualifications, after his father made a $2.5 million donation.
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Joseph DeLaine, the plaintiffs in Briggs, who risked all and lost their jobs; the titanic Marshall and his lawyerly activists, who assembled a mountain of facts to overwhelm Jim Crow's wiliest ways; a depressed, blinded Isaac Woodard, who lived out his life mostly on charity in the Bronx; a president from a neo-Confederate corner of Missouri; and, finally, a judge who committed treason to his race and class to try to move the South into modernity.
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Kapadia next played Priya, an arms dealer in Christopher Nolan's spy thriller Tenet. Her screen test for the role was shot in 2019 by Adajania before filming for Angrezi Medium began. The film opened amid the pandemic to a wide audience around the world. Richard Roeper of Chicago Sun-Times wrote that she "quietly steals every scene she's in" and Guy Lodge of Variety opined that she had given the film's "wiliest performance".
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Under Guzik's guidance, Alex became experienced in securing Syndicate protection through bribery of city officials. By the mid-1940s, Alex was the main liaison between the Chicago Outfit and city hall officials. He granted control of the Loop's illegal gambling and prostitution operations, including a lucrative call girl operation out of prominent downtown hotels (of which many call girls were paid up to $500 to $1,000) Alex's operations brought in an estimated $1 million a month for the Syndicate. Described as "one of the wiliest and slickest crooks" within the Chicago Outfit, Alex would decline to answer questions under the Fifth Amendment over 39 times during his appearance before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations.
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Mason was a master of the long sentence. Here, in Batsman's Paradise, he describes in two sentences a rare appearance in higher company for the Surrey stalwart Tom Shepherd, in a Test trial at Lord's in 1927: > That he proceeded to engage with Leyland in a stand of over 200, driving > beautifully and seeming never for a moment at a loss with the wiliest > bowlers in the kingdom, never surprised me for a moment; that his innings of > 90 or so was very correctly singled out as one of the gems of the match was > entirely right and proper and to be expected. That the selectors would never > do anything about it, or that he would never get his chance to appear in any > other representative matches of any kind, was almost as inevitable a > corollary; and Tom Shepherd from that time forth obediently and I do not > doubt quite contentedly continued to bat and bowl at the Oval, where he was > known and honoured and knew his way about.Ronald Mason, Batsman’s Paradise: > An Anatomy of Cricketomania, Hollis & Carter, London, 1955, p. 70.
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