Sentences with phrase «around gamesmanship»

While Ofsted is now planning unannounced inspections in order to get around this gamesmanship, one wonders if Her Majesty's government would be better off simply relying on value - added analysis of student data.

The rebounding and all - around gamesmanship of the sometimes pouty power forward Charles Oakley?

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Patent expert Thomas Frey of the Louisville, Colo. - based think tank the DaVinci Institute explains, «This is gamesmanship, it's all moving queens and rooks around the chessboard.

The gamesmanship continues in Abel's modest apartment, where the close attention paid to his earlier activities lends his attempts to hide that coded message an instinctive audience sympathy, even though he's spying on the good old U.S.A.. By observing a spy at the ground level (the camera swoops low around Abel's pursuers» feet, as if it's combing the apartment itself), Spielberg establishes the humanity so crucial to the rest of the film.

For all their gamesmanship, though, there is no getting around their outsize ambition and allure.