(1) But whether the $40bn is merely another double-counting sleight - of-hand exercise or a genuine boost remains to be seen.

(2) Their skill and sleight of foot are bound to yield many goals this season.

(3) As any student of the paranormal will tell you, deceivers and sleight - of - hand merchants need lashings of data from which to pick and choose.

(4) Except by sleight of logic, the two positions cannot be harmonized

(5) It is also deftly staged using an impressive sleight of hand and sleight of eye.

(6) By some psychological sleight , it can actually make winners feel like losers.

(7) Instead, by some sleight of mind, it distorts our idea of the pool of possibilities.

(8) What we're faced with are psychic sharps, like card sharps: sleight of hand, sleight of mind.

(9) Except by sleight of logic, the two positions cannot be harmonized

(10) From the outset of his remarkable career, juggling was u2018something that marked meu2019, a special ability of sleight of hand in which dexterity is the fundamental attribute.

(11) But the reality is that those in charge of making the changes are too busy courting the corporations and wealthy individuals who benefit most from their anti-democratic sleights of hand .

(12) After my first success I became intensely interested and gave up the sleight of hand and conjuring work I had been doing.

(13) 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.

(14) What these powers were I, of course, know as little as anyone else, but they certainly were far exalted above the vulgar sleight of hand and tricks of ordinary so-called magicians.

(15) But this argument is too important for sleights of hand .

(16) Deceit is not lying: it is more sleight of hand , or, if you prefer, the small con.

(17) You can't reveal their hidden microphones or mimic their tricks with sleight of hand .

(18) It's like the stage business that distracts the audience while the magician does his sleight of hand trick.

(19) There is every chance that he performed a little sleight of hand and other conjuring.

(20) These people are magicians - expert architects of enjoyment - performing incredible sleights of hand .

(21) 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.

(22) Such statistical sleights of hand (described by Lomborg as u2018a statistical finesseu2019) are obviously nothing new, and their use has certainly not been restricted to environmentalists.

(23) Understanding how your audience thinks is the key to a great response to a trick, not the sleight of hand , he says.

(24) He freely admitted that magic depended on deception and sleight of hand but said: u2018Origami is real magic!u2019

(25) Instead, they feature constant sleights of hand , bouts of opportunism, inventive trickeryu2019 .

(26) However, people of the present day are getting more enlightened; and although they see something done beyond their ken, yet they know it is only a piece of deception or sleight of hand on the part of the performers.

(27) One of the most startling public acts of deception and sleight of hand has been undertaken by the provincial government.