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Перевод: sleight

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1. A nifty bit of sleight of hand got the ashtray into the correct position, and in a few seconds, I had a good quantity of the precious fluid.
2. This was a magnificent political sleight of hand.
3. They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another.
4. Just as the magician fools his audience with his sleight of hand, so deflection displays confuse the pouncing predator by sending him false signals.
5. THE Government was challenged yesterday to overhaul its employment statistics as Labour's front bench employment team accused ministers of "statistical sleight of hand" in claiming a huge expansion of jobs in the eighties.
6. But usually he manages to pre-empt the tackle by sleight of foot.
7. I must as a matter of honour remove all possible ambiguities of expression, avoid any taint of pretence, or dishonesty, or literary sleight of hand.
8. All the empirical evidence in favour of accuracy order can now be shifted by sleight of hand in support of the notion of natural acquisition.
9. Gould, in fact, saw the objections to tape-editing as being rooted much more deeply in the assumption that man is his own best advocate - the most unwarranted assumption of the post-Renaissance era, Gould adds - with a consequent belief that such technological sleight of hand was, if not immoral, then certainly dehumanizing.
10. This is the political and ideological basis of their analysis of literacy which, by a sleight of hand, is presented as the "neutral", "objective" findings of the scientist, appropriately couched in the technical language of their academic discipline.
11. Such an approach may demonstrate to the satisfaction of some that no crime is involved, but it is surely most unsatisfactory to rest the response of the law to what is seen as a testing moral and philosophical issue on some semantic sleight of hand.
12. Nowhere was the impact of this clumsy sleight of hand more evident than in the inner cities, where voluntary organizations had been most active, and where the Government was most anxious for them to mop up unemployment.
13. Sometimes there were only two or three points and the quick QED had something of prestidigitation, of a sleight of hand; even so, it was a compelling way of stating affectionate and didactic disagreement, especially before an audience.