Craftsmen at small, family-run workshops refined gadgets that no industrial robot could ever produce as adeptly.
Calm and unflappable, he has proved an efficient manager, handling a disparate collection of ministers adeptly.
As such, he adeptly bridges the high and lower ends of fashion with aplomb.
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He adeptly used planning laws to encourage projects that included affordable housing, transport upgrades and other social goods.
Poland was well served by its finance minister, Jacek Rostowski, a sardonic English-born economics professor, who adeptly managed the borrowing splurge.
Tensions that were managed adeptly in the past are multiplying, and the tenor of official dialogue and public discourse has become more strident.
Instead they adeptly swung the province behind Iyad Allawi, a secular Shia, helping to secure him the biggest share of the national vote.
John Foster Dulles and Henry Kissinger come to mind as secretaries of state who adeptly waged political warfare as an instrument on the world stage.
As adeptly staged by the Mint's artistic director, Jonathan Bank, his cast is quite accomplished at making the most of these nuances and pivotal moments.
Under Mark Booth, a solid marketer without the particular genius of Mr Chisholm, Sky will have to prove it can execute its strategy as adeptly as of old.
Knowing that new opportunities might not look the way she had initially imagined, allowed her to move adeptly from engineer to private sector manager to the UN, making use of transferable skills as well as transferable passions.
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The size of the Welsh civil service has been reduced substantially, largely through natural wastage - it seems from outside at least, the process has been handled pretty adeptly though doubtless from the inside, the view may be different.
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