On the trickiest regional issue, Basque separatism, he has played the card of national unity.
During the election campaign, Mr Maduro played his best card: his appointment by Mr Chavez as his successor.
Yet, as far as I can tell, Lula has never played the populist card of attacking private air travel.
Having played the nationalist card successfully, Mr Papadopoulos is riding high at home even as he is shunned abroad.
Rather than despair, Moskowitz played his trump card--himself and a few key Ceradyne employees--to get the best deal he could.
In Thailand and Malaysia, the governments have played another nationalist card: announcing the expulsion of large numbers of foreign workers.
He was viewed as having played the race card one too many times, especially in light of the increasing evidence against him.
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Addressing an audience of local civil servants and Islamic teachers, he played the nationalism card to the hilt, accusing the West of trying to control Malaysians.
But longtime associates insist that he never played the race card, unlike other pribumi tycoons who lobbied for government favors and debt forgiveness on account of their ethnicity.
Newcastle were surprisingly lacking any sense of real urgency, and Shearer played his final card with 20 minutes left by sending on Shola Ameobi for the tiring Viduka.
He immediately played the race card and was extremely confrontational.
And right now, the studies that make up that assessment are closely held, ready to be played like a hole card in poker.
Our textbooks have become a tool of international politics, a card sometimes played in the domestic politics of other countries, or for foreign governments to secure money from Japan.
That said, the card Merkel has played this weekend is a one-time pass, a Boy Who Cried Wolf trick.
"She'll be able to block the national security card from being played, " Mark Penn, Clinton's chief strategist, said Monday night.
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Tilton played the sex-kitten card during the mid-1990s when she worked on the sales and trading desk of Amroc Investments, on the phone with buyers of loans and high-yield debt.
For instance, a card could be played on some ranged units to tie them to a specific square that they would defend until death, essentially turning them into defensive structures.
Chavez's inner circle has long claimed the U.S. government was behind a failed a 2002 attempt to overthrow him, and he has frequently played the anti-American card to stir up support.
Counterparties like Goldman Sachs, knowing it could use the bankruptcy laws to force AIG to sell high quality assets to pay off its gambling debts, played them like a Vegas card sharp never losing a minute of sleep worrying that the rube might go broke.
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Perhaps such hesitation played a part in the red card he received in the 1-0 defeat by Ukraine in World Cup qualifying last October.
Reduced access to auto credit, lower credit card limits and closed accounts played a role, too.
Credit-card-fuelled consumer spending played a significant role in South Korea's economic recovery but left a legacy of bad debt.
Simon Church came on to make his debut on 60 minutes, but the Reading striker collected a yellow card moments later when he played on after the referee's whistle.
The video which played off the handset's MicroSD card ran smooth, though was definitely suffering from blocking -- not so much the result of UMB as the compression used to store the video.
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Scotland sit third in the Fair Play League - behind Norway and Denmark - and McGhee insists the attitude of his players has played a key role in maintaining a low national card count.
"I played a lot better and keeping a bogey off the card over the weekend means I'm not too far away, " he told BBC Sport.
He went on to do a string of guest spots and commercials he got his Screen Actors Guild card with "Hill Street Blues" and played the sidekick of "MacGyver" for a season.
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