Yes, they may break a few things along the way, but their cunning and perseverance leave the crowd cheering when the credits roll.

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When banks do well, and profits soar, the bosses are responsible for it all with their strategic cunning and inspiring leadership.

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Meanwhile, sympathetic politicians in Congress, not least from Idaho, have used their legislative cunning to prevent a rise in the Sawtooth cabin fees.

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Mehsuds also quote this, to illustrate their people's cunning and derring-do.

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The Hammers enjoyed some comfortable early possession in midfield but posed little direct threat and the kind of cunning invention typified by their manager Gianfranco Zola as a player.

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That is despite the fact that former Chancellor Alistair Darling himself said it should probably be a one-off measure because cunning money men can normally find their way around such measures.

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But his opponents (who also have his boss, the cunning and popular Mr Salmond, in their sights), are not letting up.

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No, they left without their entourages, so could they be cooking up a cunning plan?

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However the billionaires are concerned that if they were to lift the injunction, Rosneft would find a cunning way not to complete the promised buyout of their 50% stake in TNK-BP.

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This description of Democrats and the left as a cunning, skillful and highly effective juggernaut directly contradicts the picture DeLay and other Republicans regularly paint of their political foes.

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