Hummingbirds are very adept at sipping nectar from any or all of these plant groups. |
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Tash had danced with Richard, who was surprisingly adept at a waltz, Sean, who wasn't, and David, who was terrible at everything. |
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The best journalists and newsrooms are ready for these moments and they are adept at applying their guiding principles. |
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Heron, although very adept at both mathematics and applied mechanics, was probably not very original in either. |
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I was somewhat adept at art, so with my pencils and notebook in my backpack, I drew a picture of Arthur with Excalibur, and his new horse. |
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They have proved adept at using self-propelled anti-aircraft guns such as the BOV-3 in the ground role. |
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The merchants of death are adept at using marketing to undermine the good influence of parents. |
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Each is at once elitist and popular, adept at serio-comically pressing the limits of the Spanish language's expressivity. |
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Some of us learned the lesson quickly and laughed at our classmates who were less adept at English and slow to drop their native tongues. |
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But adept insurance salespeople will try and sell you all kinds of extra insurance on top. |
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I think they came over because they were more adept at sexing chickens than we were. |
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He has posted 12 touchbacks and has become adept at pushing the ball to one side or the other to reduce the running room for return men. |
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An even halfway adept filmmaker would interpret and shape such footage, formalize and comment upon it. |
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Members of the Church Militant are adept at all combat skills, including leading troops on the field of battle. |
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The general, adept in running with the hare and hunting with the hound, is now caught in a cleft stick. |
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An exceptionally talented man, he was equally adept at dancing and singing, corny comedy and serious dramatics. |
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One might, if one is no slave to occidental prejudice, suggest Chuang-Tzu, who was more adept at the droll and the fantastic. |
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Moore is also adept at letting assorted crazies expose their idiocy on camera. |
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Both were meticulous artists and canny businessmen, adept at anticipating audience trends. |
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He is adept at coaxing performances from actors with little or no experience. |
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The 12 songs here reveal a band that's cocksure but never cocky, moody but never melodramatic and musically adept. |
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As a society, we are becoming less adept at talking face-to-face and conversational skills are suffering. |
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Both proved themselves adept farceurs, savouring every idiotic situation and line of dialogue with gusto and panache. |
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During the 1950s, she was adept at grabbing newspaper headlines and column inches. |
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All populist right-wing movements, inciters to violence and hatred, are adept in the language of Grievance. |
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Why everyone picks on the poor fellow just because he is not highly adept at running his personal finances, I cannot understand. |
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So adept was I at burying my real feelings and compartmentalizing myself that I eventually had myself convinced I enjoyed it. |
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Not only are you a crack shot with a handgun, but you are also adept at the crucial placement of bear traps. |
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She was not a big spender, but was serious and pretty adept at saving and investing. |
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Among the expedients resorted to in exploiting a scientific fraud, mystifying lingo is one of the commonest, and in this he was an adept. |
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The 30-year-old winger is equally adept at deflating the opposition with a short-handed goal or a game-winner. |
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He was sincere but he was not adept at consolation so it came out stiff, wooden. |
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The psychologically savvy custodian is adept at pinpointing key moments in his development. |
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The brass casters of Igun Street are astute, adept quick studies and show a remarkable receptiveness to new technologies and ideas. |
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Our culture seems amazingly adept at devouring what might harm or upset it. |
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He is also utterly charming, happy to poke fun at himself, and adept at sidestepping questions he doesn't want to answer. |
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The weary cragginess of his face reminded me of Gary Cooper, also adept at saying little and conveying much. |
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Peterson has good catch-up quickness and is adept at reaching around receivers to slap the ball away. |
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Many young South Indians are adept at Carnatic music and can accompany even professional musicians on the mridangam, the ghatam or the violin. |
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These ubiquitous smoothers of business should be adept at navigating the complex relationships among the prominent local business families. |
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The industry has so far proved adept at making new discoveries to replace exhausted oil and gas fields. |
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But for those who cared, Guthrie's adept pop songwriting and smooth consolidation of orch strings and guitars made for some good, good times. |
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I become adept in my own sphere of influence and exertion, at peace and without fear. |
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United have even proved adept at switching the tactics mid-game to outwit opponents this season. |
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Moorthy is adept at drawing with pencil, charcoal, watercolours, oils et al and has participated in several exhibitions. |
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These are some of the compositions even those adept at the art are chary of attempting. |
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The thing is, you see, I have learned from painful experience that kids are not necessarily adept at sticking to a schedule. |
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Russell also kept free range chooks, ducks and geese, most but not all of whom became quite adept at avoiding the local dogs. |
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Mann proved himself adept crossing genres from comedies such as Our Man Flint to horror films like Willard. |
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His blues are powerful without being mawkish, his jazz adept and tasteful, his funk chops always an example to others. |
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The net also plays into the Tories' hands by facilitating the 'dog-whistle' campaigning at which he has become increasingly adept. |
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Liz is a veterinarian adept at animal acupuncture, and she does house calls in the West Hollywood and Pasadena areas. |
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People that are good at it and adept at it can be very guttural and gutsy and dark and moving and poignant all at the same time. |
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I became adept at cutting and plating these desserts for two so that they were sized for one and still looked appealing. |
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Some of the codes will unfold with merely adept connivance, others will swim vigorously into and by circulation inside their own medium. |
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Culturally adept viewers will also enjoy the celebrity cameos and inside jokes, none of which I will spoil here. |
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Perhaps even more significant, they were also adept at interpreting even the writings of the New Testament according to this dualistic code. |
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It's just that Tim Davis, Scott Peterman, Dan Torop and Mark Wyse, although as adept as their distaff colleagues, have less in common. |
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While he has never taken a team to the Super Bowl, he is adept at fielding a competitive team that minimizes mistakes. |
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They are adept in concealing their ideological and political agenda in a very attractive and secular-looking package. |
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When an informationally inept population must compete with one that is informationally adept, the deficient state or region always loses. |
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He is adept at using short and discontinuous notes to riff the rhythm and create tension. |
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Obviously the first conception can breed bureaucrats who are adept at figuring out ways to elude the law. |
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Murray is adept at achieving an osmotic relationship of sorts between geometric and painterly abstraction. |
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He was so adept at his job that he could slice his quota of animals in a fraction of the time it took other offal dressers. |
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Eichmann was adept at learning practical skills on the job, under the tutelage of seniors he respected. |
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Liam shows himself quite adept at the drug business, and eventually attracts the notice of local racketeers. |
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But, next season, players will become more attuned to what he is going to do and become more adept at stopping him. |
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He had grown very adept at using the crutches and now spent less time in bed than ever before. |
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These wars were difficult affairs against enemies who were as technically adept as the Normans themselves. |
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But he was also adept at deploying nearly everything that came to hand for promoting evolutionary theory. |
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He is very adept at using his body to shield defenders from making plays on the ball. |
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It also defines why she had proved so adept at slipping into a rich variety of guises, gowns and grotesqueries. |
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He was also adept at promoting the scheme to the Australian populace by presenting it as a symbol of national pride. |
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He also was very adept at picking up on people's weaknesses and teasing them, ruffling some feathers. |
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He doesn't claim to know it all and is very adept at handling guests on his show who think they do. |
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For Italy it was a day of bitter disappointment as they ran out again battered and bruised by more adept opponents. |
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In an age of open government the system is still adept at keeping the public in the dark. |
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There was also a mounted element of crossbowmen equally adept at reconnaissance and pursuit. |
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Performances are enhanced by an intelligent musical score and adept cinematography. |
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The media baron revealed himself adept at delivering gossipy snippets in an in-depth interview with the Financial Times last week. |
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It was indeed lucky that none of these bandits seemed to be very adept with a sword. |
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Already, however, they were adept gliders and had become familiar with their territory. |
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He's very adept at seeing a play develop, and that gets him to the right spot at the right time. |
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Your average city worker is very adept at avoiding anyone who looks like they might be giving out leaflets. |
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We're quite adept at picking out what it is we don't like about other human beings. |
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He became an adept in the cryptologic art, until then almost unknown, and exercised it on behalf of the parliamentary party. |
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Displaying cat-like reflexes, Beene proved she was as adept at frustrating the world's most prolific goal scorers as her more famous rival. |
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Successive administrations have proven adept at devising strategies for isolating offending regimes. |
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While not spectacular, he became adept at making the routine plays and even sprinkled in an occasional dazzler. |
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Self-described perfectionists may be adept at getting things done at work, but when it comes to marriage the story is not so picture-perfect. |
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He admits that she is equally adept at manipulating him to her cause as she is in the art of archery or the garrotte. |
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Similarly shaped raptors, such as peregrine falcons and goshawks, are adept at the agile pursuit and rapid capture of birds in flight. |
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Like a sharp pair of fangs, quick forelegs, or keen hearing, our adept mind has insured the survival of our species. |
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While aggression is a common virtue among champion pace predators, Walsh was adept at putting a lid on his temper. |
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Each and every one of them is as adept with the longbow and the broadsword by day as he is with the dirk and the garrotte in the dead of night. |
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Along the way, minor ailments were treated and hypochondria dispelled, with adept matter of factness. |
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They are especially adept at taking off from and landing on short airstrips. |
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They scrounged for pine cones for the fires, and both became adept at chopping kindling. |
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Jerry Miculek is a fine rifleman, a wizard with a shotgun and adept with any type of handgun. |
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The hind limbs of galagos are longer than their forelimbs, which makes them very adept at leaping. |
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Mentionably, professional woodcutters, who are adept at handsawing of timber are hired by the timber smugglers to carry on the business. |
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He was a fabulous singer and songwriter who was equally adept at adapting blues classics or conjuring new standards, seemingly, with ease. |
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As a young officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, he became adept at reels, strathspeys and sword dances. |
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They have worldwide connections, and are particularly adept at exploiting the internet. |
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As a journalist, he is perhaps more adept at mining memories than laboriously sifting through archives. |
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All three of these guys are veterans, each adept at crafting perfect solos with formulae tried by time. |
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He suggested the military might have to re-examine some of its recruiting standards to attract the most adept cyberwarriors. |
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With her no-nonsense approach to life, Sandy is prolific and is equally adept with a pencil or a paintbrush in her hand. |
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In my teens I grew adept at the tricky art of getting into mischief without getting into trouble. |
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Massive Attack used to be adept at bringing lesser known vocalists in to the mainstream and making them shine. |
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These working dogs, much larger than today's Yorkies, were adept at catching rats and other small mammals. |
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Lobbyists grew adept at larding ambitious legislation with special-interest provisions. |
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Over the years, he has become adept on alto and soprano saxes, value trombone, flugelhorn, pocket trumpet, cornet, and various clarinets. |
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He is used primarily as a blocker, but be is adept at getting open, catching the ball and not fumbling. |
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The drug industry is very adept at seeding the media with scare stories to clog up the waiting room. |
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Ministers were no less adept, leaking information to the press and timing official announcements to maximum advantage. |
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Over time, its descendants became ever more adept at swimming and paid for their aquatic prowess with increasing cumbrousness on land. |
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They are adept at creating an exquisite line in melody that's deep in emotion and rich in vibrancy. |
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You might get pickpocketed because you wouldn't know young children are more adept at it than older ones. |
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McClaren is a PR man, adept at buttering people up in the boardroom but unproven in the dressing room, where it matters most. |
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Hummingbirds are the most adept aerialists of all birds and the only ones capable of sustained hovering. |
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Maybe we will become adept at switching from left brain to right brain as a means of following our spiritual path. |
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But they also had a penchant for niggling and appeared very adept at winning penalties for laying on by effectively holding the tackler on top. |
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Although adept at the silky arts of persuasion, Cariappa was a soldier who spoke his mind. |
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Near is particularly adept at the arch delivery typical of his uptight businessman in the early scenes. |
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Living amongst the lower class of London all of the time had certainly made Cate much more adept at blending in. |
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He is great with musical instruments too, adept at playing the synth and the tabla. |
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Encouraged by her grandmother and aided by her uncle, she begins to practice the use of the taiaha in secret, and she becomes adept in its use. |
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Trichromat tamarins, as it turned out, were 50 percent more adept at choosing the ripe fruit than their dichromat fellows. |
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Viewers have become so adept at decoding adverts that your average post-modern couch potato can spot a marketing strategy a mile off. |
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Over the years, McPhee has become adept on alto and soprano saxes, value trombone, flugelhorn, pocket trumpet, cornet, and various clarinets. |
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Many tourists are not so adept at conforming to America's very strict customs about standing in line, but are they really rude? |
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Our bomb squad is very adept at dealing with these, and has many similar types of call-outs all over the city like this about suspicious packages. |
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Equally adept at all subject matter, Lycett decorated vases and plaques with medallions imitating cameos, polychrome figures derived from Pompeian frescoes, and genre scenes. |
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Determined terrorists have become adept at forging EU passports at precisely the time that the agency charged with blocking their entry is hamstrung by a lack of personnel. |
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The Pentagon became adept at supplying video-game-like pictures of U.S. missile strikes at the same time that it began to provide the large-type captions on TV screens. |
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The teachers served to initiate the catechumens through different stages, until the hearer was adept enough to be entrusted with the mysteries of the faith. |
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He is outmuscled at times by big wide-outs and isn't adept at run support. |
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The Incas were also adept at engineering bridges over the many rivers and ravines of their mountainous land, as well as causeways over tracts of swampland. |
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As a former law professor at several elite law schools, he is adept at discussing high constitutional theory. |
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These same companies have also been adept at circumventing user privacy and avoiding their tax obligations. |
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They are typically invasive, highly adaptive, parasitic and adept at mimicking more benign plants. |
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He was adept at deflecting a direct question with an anecdote or a bromide presented as a confidence. |
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It is tempting to suppose it was the result of adept management. |
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She has never driven a car but was very adept at handling a pony and cart. |
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Emergency nappy changing is a skill most mothers become quite adept at. |
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Other countries are more adept at keeping their judges in check. |
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That's crucial to buttressing the adept rainmaker in an area where he's weak, says the portfolio manager at Oakmark Global Fund, which owns 750,000 IPG shares. |
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Through the years he became just as adept at politics as he was on horseback. |
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You mentioned in your presentation that particularly younger people who are both adroit and adept at the new technology, thrive in that environment. |
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Rather than conforming their minds, hearts and wills to God's purposes, humans are adept at manipulating the name of God to serve their own agendas. |
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Bobcats, wolverines, and fishers, that know how to flip the animal on its back and expose its unprotected underside, are the most adept at killing porcupines. |
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Despite this concern, the duo remain extremely adept at creating lacunae at the heart of their music, spaces into which you can project your own feelings and memories. |
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Thanks to these alpha parents' first-rate genes and nonstop cocktail parties, their scions were both very good-looking and highly adept at small talk. |
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The star practitioners of the self-portrait are as controversial as they always were, and just as adept at shaping our culture. |
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It is much less adept at counting employees in small businesses, simply because there are too many small enterprises to representatively sample them. |
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He was adept at answering simplistic criticism with simplistic retorts. |
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Also, players who are square at the top of their swing are better drawers of the ball and are equally adept at fading it without manipulating the club with their hands. |
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Over the years, she has become highly adept at deflecting personal criticism, smearing her accusers as misogynists who cannot bear the idea of a strong professional woman. |
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Not only that, but much of the land in this region of Wyoming is owned by ranchers who know the terrain like the back of their hand, and have become adept at spotting fossils. |
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A science buff, Kahn also grew adept at spotting the long-term potential of emerging technologies and new industries. |
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MacLean is an adept physical comic and a skilled mime, which adds a bit of flare here, but this gloss hardly excuses the standard manner in which the play unfolds. |
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The prince was an adept climber, having scaled the bluffs and trees of his kingdom since he could walk, and reached the entrance to the cave unscathed. |
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He had grown fairly adept at imitating Jimjim's clipped speech. |
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The wife, who has had her leg in plaster these past three weeks, has become adept at clumping around the house and garden in a Long John Silver sort of way. |
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The team is successful with shifts because Gannon is so adept at reading defenses and exploiting weaknesses, as are veteran WRs Jerry Rice and Brown. |
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For centuries, people have been tunneling into the landscape, which proved especially adept at hiding those fleeing persecution. |
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Many free black and slave musicians who fought in the Civil War became adept at using piston-valve instruments of conical bore, including tubas, helicons, and saxophones. |
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These boxes look flimsy and remind me of the old metal money boxes for children which the most adept could easily relieve of the collected treasure. |
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Though he's adept at twisting the sound of the guitar into any shape he likes, Abrahams is as interested in musical structure as he is in texture. |
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This values debate has shown itself to be extremely useful to the GOP for decades and they are very adept at moving the goalposts when it's necessary. |
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And, unless you are adept at teetering in mules, wearing shoes without tights is uncomfortable, especially if you have to walk more than a few yards. |
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The Chinese proved remarkably adept at reproducing the armorial designs, copying painted or printed patterns such as bookplates sent from Europe and America. |
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Most people are fairly adept at judging the character and personality of others, or at least at distinguishing unreasoning zealots from men of good sense. |
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Someone needs to write a book on how to interpret silences because I'm sure there are more out there like me who aren't adept at knowing what the unsaid means. |
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The happy result of such a decision is that it leads you naturally to support the local economy and craftspeople, who are adept at working with native materials. |
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The Prince is also adept at producing quick, light supper snacks, which he and the Queen often enjoy when they have dismissed the servants for the night. |
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Over the years I've gotten adept at traveling with a lot of useless stuff. |
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He sports a Vandyke beard and flashes a mischievous grin that gives him the look of a swashbuckler, though he's more adept with a torque wrench than a rapier. |
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Their Chinese opponents were supported by powerful artillery and mortars, and adept in the continual nightly patrolling contest in no-man's land between the lines. |
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The nippy, adept forward's haul of six points, which included two superb second-half efforts, played a substantial part in the north Roscommon club's four-points victory. |
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Equally adept at comedy and drama, Cranham has played bumbling detectives, passionate army dentists and good-hearted pastors with equal proficiency. |
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Schwarzenegger is adept at disguising his true feelings beneath a mask of preternatural calm, but he was suddenly doubly alert. |
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Playing for Sri Lanka, Muralitharan must also defend smaller totals, strive more often in losing causes, and be supported by less adept fieldsmen. |
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I mean if you're doing one thing all your life and becoming procedurally more and more adept at that one thing, then you're going to end up with quite a fixed view of things. |
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Her schooling is unknown but, adept at written English, she sometimes wrote in an educated, copperplate hand and her works were sprinkled with Gallicisms and Latin tags. |
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At first glance the crevice seemed natural, but then his skilled eye noted that it was just too neat and had been carefully hewn by practiced, adept hands. |
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Over its fourteen-year history the military government has become adept at exploiting Burma's geostrategic position and at manipulating the concerns of its regional neighbors. |
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First, they're deceitful and adept at concealing their true intentions. |
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Putting aside for a moment that it's primarily non-verbal, so by nature it defies verbal explanation, but I'm also by no means as adept as I intend to be. |
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Guerrero, 27, is one of the game's most electrifying players, a hitter equally adept at crushing pitches that are a foot over his head or an inch off the ground. |
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In length he prefers the epigrammatic and in form he is an adept formalist, acknowledging his antecedents in the farmer-poets of the past, Frost, Horace and Theognis. |
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Mark Ealham and Craig White, in particular, are adept at that while Darren Gough can be guaranteed to deliver countless searing inswingers. |
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The transmutation of metals was secondary to the main aim, which was the spiritual transformation of the adept. |
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In hindsight, I regret not giving him a terrorist fist jab or the Islamist secret handshake. I hear he's quite adept at those. |
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The highly attuned nervous system of racerunners and teiids makes them very adept at locating and grasping prey insects. |
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He was very adept at portocaval shunts, although we knew little about hepatic encephalopathy at that time. |
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They are more adept walking on land than most other seabirds, and the smaller gulls tend to be more manoeuvrable while walking. |
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Nelson combined this talent with an adept grasp of strategy and politics, making him a highly successful naval commander. |
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People who know more than one language have been reported to be more adept at language learning compared to monolinguals. |
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While Smith was not adept at public speaking, his lectures met with success. |
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On trips to the country estate in Kent, south of London, Pelham was adept at preventing dragsmen from cutting the luggage from the carriage. |
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For no nearness in space, no closeness of relations, no daily intimacy, can do away with the inexorable laws which give the adept his seclusion. |
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Hopkins is a gifted mimic, adept at turning his native Welsh accent into whatever is required by a character. |
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Luchini is especially adept at physical comedy, bringing an odd grace to utter gracelessness. |
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She becomes adept at being a horse thief and accompanies Cochise and Geronimo on their raids. |
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In early 1881, he is a chemistry student with a number of eccentric interests, almost all of which make him adept at solving crimes. |
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Horses have always been a part of Frank Lane's life and in earlier days he was known as being quite adept in cutting-horse competitions. |
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Once the desired bill was prepared, Disraeli's handling of it was not adept. |
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Peter's was the employment of musicians adept in polyphony and trained in the choir schools of northern France and the Low Countries. |
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He was adept at mimicry and storytelling, and was reputedly quite good at charades. |
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Romeo, for example, grows more adept at the sonnet over the course of the play. |
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century the physically adept aggro femme had become a recurring motif in new circus and physical theatre. |
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But the Baby Bells soon became adept at blocking competitors' access-to their lines. |
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Beatrix and her brother were allowed great freedom in the country and both children became adept students of natural history. |
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It is known that Hooke had a particularly keen eye, and was an adept mathematician, neither of which applied to Boyle. |
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Peregrine falcons and Eurasian sparrowhawks are natural predators of pigeons that are quite adept at catching and feeding upon this species. |
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Emily is of course an attentive and inventive mom, and she's an adept home-schooler as well. |
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One explanation may be that Hamlet was written later in Shakespeare's life, when he was adept at matching rhetorical devices to characters and the plot. |
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I've learned to be more comfortable and adept at working with the blue screen where you're talking to an imaginary figure rather than another actor,' said Natalie, right. |
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In 1834 there occurred the first recorded use of Aboriginal trackers, who proved very adept at navigating their way through the Australian landscape and finding people. |
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They are very adept in hunting in their respective environments. |
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There could be no more adept performers of these wonderful works than Katia and Marielle Labeque, siblings, and Parisiennes, capturing all of the Poulenc's street-cred. |
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As a politician, he was very adept at speaking mendaciously in public. |
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Archaically, there are still 92 hereditary peers, in place only because their ancestors proved rather adept at pulling the wool over Joe Soap''s eyes. |
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We took fake falls and became adept at using an ice axe for self-arrest. |
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It could have been a good plan except I proved oddly adept at navigating my way between buoys while an instructor issued orders through a loud hailer. |
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People often select family members under their powers of attorney for health care and select individuals adept in business matters under their general powers of attorney. |
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A late Song painter named Yu Jian, adept to Tiantai buddhism, created a series of splashed ink landscapes that eventually inspired many Japanese zen painters. |
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Though sometimes inclined to indulge in grandiosity when writing for a full symphony orchestra, he was adept in using smaller forces to the maximum effect. |
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They are thought to be Canada Geese, which have thrived on Britain's waterways since being introduced and are particularly adept at living in urban areas. |
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He became an adept horseman and marksman, and took up fencing. |
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The Vikings were competent sailors, adept in land warfare as well as at sea, and they often struck at accessible and poorly defended targets, usually with near impunity. |
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It is an adept climber of trees, making it harder to hunt with hounds. |
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Adept selects the ideal SoftPICTh' grippers or graspers specifically for each customer's range of products. |
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While the Albrets had managed to keep their domanial revenues reasonably high through adept management, they quickly found themselves faced with three interconnected problems. |
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