He has skirted potential scandals and let the buck stop somewhere else during his nine-month tenure.
The joint statement it yielded skirted some thorny disputes, such as the value of China's currency.
Previously, enforcement of the Navigation Acts and other laws had been lackluster and easily skirted.
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Google has always skirted the boundary, and has occasionally even crossed the line when it comes to privacy.
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During that interview, Ackman nervously skirted a question as to his confidence in an FTC shutdown of Herbalife.
The Scot took Wallace's pass and skirted the attempted challenge of Boyet to go over in the left corner.
Wherever he went, trouble followed, but he skirted just above the ethical line.
And there's one ripe issue they've largely skirted: the Bush Administration's weak-dollar policy.
An ultra-nationalist Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank, Mr Lieberman skirted around the key issue of a Palestinian state.
It was called the Lesnia, which was the name of the dense woods it meandered through as it skirted Prigorodnaia.
When he had finished speaking, he saw that the psychiatrist and the skirted woman had fallen asleep on their chairs.
None of them said anything, although that night at dinner the skirted woman asked if he was going to Buenos Aires.
It was easily carried about, especially in the capacious pockets of a gentleman's long-skirted coat of the era, and it sold well.
There are some issues which have been skirted round by the production.
Fiandaca drew new attention when Republican candidate Mitt Romney's wife wore his designs, including a cream-colored skirted suit at a campaign debate.
The American wore the same self-designed black lace number she had unveiled against Schnyder, a see-through skirted bodice featuring a skin-coloured undergarment.
The company skirted a big potential roadblock in July, when it agreed to a pay hike for 200, 000 of its unionized workers.
They skirted an alley crowded with handmade bricks laid out to dry.
But even those cryptographic safeguards can be skirted in other ways, potentially by exploiting vulnerabilities at the endpoints, when the data is decrypted.
They were asked several questions about immigration, which they simply skirted.
For months it simmered on the edges of the national political scene, a tantalising wedge issue for conservatives even as key Democrats skirted the discussion.
Even if these dangers can be skirted, the region is going to experience a sharp slowdown, though perhaps only Japan and Singapore are already in recession.
But even then Mr Ramos skirted the direct question of whether he would or would not stand for re-election should moves to change the constitution succeed.
This spring, the designer offered playful monkeys climbing up the front of cotton dresses, and bright, digitized Navajo patterns on pant sets, cotton sweaters and full-skirted frocks.
Tammy followed her friends into the ladies tennis league, a circle that required not only court fees and extensive coaching, but skirted white outfits and hours of child care.
Regarding the torrent of revelation concerning Democratic fund-raising practices, Clinton conceded during a Jan. 28 news conference that "mistakes were made", though he carefully skirted any personal culpability.
Battery life was a big improvement amongst the Nokia Lumia 920, Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx HD, and Samsung Galaxy Note 2, and it felt like Apple skirted this issue.
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In late April California Democrat and corporate scourge Henry Waxman fired off letters to AID, the Pentagon and the General Accounting Office demanding to know why standard open-bidding processes were skirted.
She effectively summarized that Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling developed a culture where employees would scramble to beat earnings, even if laws had to be skirted in order to do so.
The specially outfitted Boeing 757 barely shuddered as it gingerly skirted some of the most ferocious storm cells over Fort Walton Beach and then climbed above the rest in zero visibility.
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