Tea ceremonies, tea appreciation and tasting services led by skilful tea masters, may feature any of the above.
Sometimes both sides are exhausted, enabling skilful mediators to coax their leaders into negotiations.
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The new president has also been skilful in assembling the team that will deal with China.
Why are the English matches more popular than Spain's and Italy's, which are just as skilful?
But their campaign strategists are both more skilful and more ruthless than their Liberal counterparts.
Scales described Briers as "very skilful, very professional, and off screen a dear friend and a very considerate colleague".
He is skilful in deploying patronage, from seats in the Lords to invitations to Number 10.
Give skilful executives (not the lucky ones) good rewards, but penalise them heavily for bad decisions.
N'Zogbia continued to look the most skilful player on the pitch, troubling Stoke with several pacy runs.
He's such a skilful player, I think to have him on the park is a huge asset.
They fear that Stephen Harper, the skilful leader of the Alberta-based Alliance, will take over the merger.
"Freddie is a terrific striker, very powerful, skilful and he can score goals, " said the Rangers midfielder.
Although Mr Marinho was in essence an extremely skilful businessman, he liked to call himself a journalist.
It was the first war to be brought by television and a skilful propaganda machine into rich-country homes almost daily.
Mr MacCulloch describes the era with a skilful sweep, though little distinguishes this section from a more general account.
The proposal was approved "in order to ensure the council can successfully recruit and retain knowledgeable and skilful employees".
It is an issue that demands skilful handling by competent and impartial administrators.
It would take skilful manoeuvring to do that and also promote bold, liberalising reforms, such as cutting fuel subsidies.
She says classic knitwear is often created using skilful processes, and technology will improve this vastly in the future.
His speechwriters are skilful and he delivers punchlines with a certain deadpan panache.
He is a skilful parliamentary tactician, and may be able to pick the issue on which that vote will come.
He has also been skilful at shaping policies which have a good chance of setting Democrats at each other's throats.
Gareth Taylor, Product Manager at leading golf club manufacturer Callaway, told CNN he believes the change will reward more skilful players.
On the other hand, the OAS has been very skilful in remaining attached to the principle of "not rocking the boat".
Yet Mr Zeng is an ambitious and skilful politician, whereas Mr Hu has distinguished himself only by ploddingly carrying out his duties.
It therefore takes a skilful and self-confident operator to pull it off.
It starts in the locker room, where Barcelona's collection of relatively young, small, skilful players look and often behave like a collection of choirboys.
The skilful Moroccan drove in a fierce cross which had Motherwell all at sea but Stavrum could not make the vital connection.
In fact, few students leave higher education without learning something, and what they learn probably makes them better and more skilful workers.
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