| One of the most startling public acts of deception and sleight of hand has been undertaken by the provincial government. |
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| After my first success I became intensely interested and gave up the sleight of hand and conjuring work I had been doing. |
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| Understanding how your audience thinks is the key to a great response to a trick, not the sleight of hand, he says. |
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| It is easy enough to see the appeal of magic performed by those skilled in sleight of hand and the art of illusion. |
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| It's like the stage business that distracts the audience while the magician does his sleight of hand trick. |
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| There is every chance that he performed a little sleight of hand and other conjuring. |
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| It is also deftly staged using an impressive sleight of hand and sleight of eye. |
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| Convenient oversights like this are all part of that sleight of hand this administration specializes in to pursue its aims. |
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| Needless to say, providing pork often comes with a little senatorial sleight of hand. |
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| If it was called magic we would have expected some trickery and sleight of hand. |
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| You can't reveal their hidden microphones or mimic their tricks with sleight of hand. |
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| In a sense it's a sleight of hand, using the nuclear issue to mask the kinds of crimes that are taking place. |
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| What is needed, and in short order, is money, not sleight of hand or political evasive action. |
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| When we are in pursuit of justice, this sleight of hand is one of the first tricks we have to challenge. |
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| I want to speak about this budget being one that I would like to call a sleight of hand budget. |
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| Hyperchild managed this sleight of hand with this statue of the hero of the game, Commander Shepard. |
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| And no, the classification of the port was not changed by some sleight of hand. |
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| If one is willing to accept this, then there is nothing inherently wrong with the verbal sleight of hand that is used to produce the consensus. |
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| I hope that you can use all your diplomatic sleight of hand also to convince your friends in the Council of the urgency of the matter. |
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| The arbitrary distinction between reproductive and non-reproductive cloning is semantic sleight of hand. |
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| Considering, not least, the disputes which have arisen in Italy, I would not want this to be interpreted as sleight of hand. |
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| The same pre-election sleight of hand is going on in other areas where there was no concrete budget commitment. |
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| Conjuring, also called magic, prestidigitation, or sleight of hand, the theatrical representation of the defiance of natural law. |
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| And that's what I've always believed in myself, and that it was not really as much about the tricks or the sleight of hand as it was the person doing it. |
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| This is a gang whose members are masters of subterfuge and sleight of hand, and they play for big money, jewels, banks and other high-security projects. |
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| The painter's orphic sleight of hand was abetted by arcane titles that conjure profligate aristocrats, sexual libertines, adepts of the dark arts and drugged esthetes. |
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| To posit that the war brings us closer to faith is a sleight of hand that makes fools of us all. |
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| The real Mamet is an actor who became a writer and had a real sense of the criminal and the sleight of hand in American life. |
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| The only sleight of hand I can detect is the fact that our hero never actually kills anyone himself. |
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| Instead she just accepted this sleight of hand as a matter of brute fact. |
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| With a little sleight of hand, I capitalized the word Eclipse there. |
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| The government practises sleight of hand accounting, which should not be tolerated, and then brags about fiscal responsibility when the debts are all over the place. |
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| If the text of this regulation is referred back for a second reading, it is not purely for a matter of form, but because Parliament refuses to accept this kind of political sleight of hand. |
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| This not just sleight of hand using a political manipulation. |
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| His genius is to fuse opposites with an imperceptible sleight of hand, to blend the surreal with the real, and the caricature with the natural. |
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| Simply calling it a development round without genuinely addressing the demands of developing countries is a sleight of hand that fails to address their real concerns. |
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| The government has been whittling away for nine years, in an obvious way and sometimes by sleight of hand, our ability to do our jobs as members of parliament. |
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| Once persecuted as heretics and sorcerers, magicians have always been conduits to a parallel universe of limitless possibility-whether invoking spirits, reading minds, or inverting the laws of nature by sleight of hand. |
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| We have seen all kinds of legislative sleight of hand in the House to put off legislation, to disregard certain situations such as unemployment and the fiscal imbalance. |
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| Some restorations suggest sleight of hand. |
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| He does the heavy lifting, and she passes it off with a sleight of hand. |
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| The very categorizing of music by genre is a sleight of hand. |
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| So members will see the sleight of hand again. |
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| If those prices become cheap again, if we make them cheap through some sleight of hand, we will reduce the motivation to finance and invest in renewable sources. |
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| The French drop is a well-known vanish involving sleight of hand. |
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| Yet for all the implicit references to Hitchcock, detective fiction, and comic books, Baseman does not fall into caricature but preserves an auteurist sleight of hand. |
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