In other words, fate makes up your crib at birth and no amount of striving, aspiring or even
finagling will unmake it.
Claimed reserves have increased, but this is due more to political and statistical
finagling than to actual new discoveries.
Through complex
finagling, they were able to buy up connecting lines, thereby completing a new route to New Orleans.
Everything is worked out to the benefit of all parties, but requires many sacrifices by the formerly self-centered, young Matt/Manta, as well as some
finagling by Jakob and his crewmembers, who have come to respect the Qanska.
Gould critiques genetic explanations for intelligence (such as measuring intelligence by the size of skulls); he critiques Samuel George Morton's inadvertent but racist
finagling of data; and he critiques Cyril Burt's fraudulent data.
We're the FA and we're determined to make sure we do things properly, without resorting to fudging,
finagling or Max Clifford-style stunts.
Witness its
finagling with ticket prices, refreshments, parking, TV deals, salary caps, special luxury boxes, and, of course, its magnificent contribution to the gouge--personal seat licensing: asking the customer to pay an exorbitant amount of money for the privilege of reserving a seat.
Meanwhile, Superintendent Bob DeLaVergne is wondering if all this
finagling is legal since Oregon law stipulates that a candidate can only seek one spot in a district.
To further complicate matters, the political
finagling pitted immigrant rights groups against the communities they work to support.
I finally got to see some shows in Denver by
finagling rides with some older guys with new wave inclinations who were working in town for the summer.
Bush's
finagling with the budget left only $1 million of the $94 million that former Rep.
After some
finagling, Cushman arranged to have Emma marry her nephew Ned, and did her best to keep them as close to her as possible, even securing for her nephew a political position in Rome.
In a recent report based on BC Forest Ministry data, Sierra Legal Defence Fund estimates that five forest companies have side-stepped $224 million in BC stumpage fees over the past two-and-a-half years through grade-setting and other similar
finagling of forest regulations.
But after various
finagling the Saints said cool, and there I was on the evening of July 18, 1994, at Midway (nee municipal) Stadium.
FINAGLING lawyer Jim Carrey is forced to tell the truth for 24 hours after his disappointed young son makes a birthday wish.
