| Inexperience in dealing with the wilier mandarins of the civil service has also seen more than a few promising careers come unstuck. |
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| The expedition continued to toil north, and continued to leak men, as deserters wilier than Collins slipped away night after night. |
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| At this point, he looks like a non-starter. His dynastic counterpart, Tarique Rahman, Mrs Zia's son, is wilier. |
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| And Jacob, who bests his kin, his own twin, twice over with guile, will be outmaneuvered and outdone ten times over by his wilier double-dealing uncle. |
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| Should he stumble, he faces a powerful potential opponent in Mr Garcia, a far wilier and more experienced politician. |
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| The Egyptian government, though wilier at handling its opponents than Algeria, is is far from popular: here too, corruption and a clumsy bureaucracy have taken their toll. |
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