0 speed and skill of the hand when performing tricks:
By some statistical sleight of hand the government has produced figures showing that unemployment has recently fallen.
1 speed and skill with the hands when performing tricks that seem to be magic
It is sleight of hand and a "con" trick to hold back a legitimate increase in the tax threshold because of the inflationary pressure.
In no way are students being legislated, by sleight of hand, out of what otherwise would have been their right.
It is all sleight of hand, all excuses, all special effects.
There is a great deal of sleight of hand in this argument.
No amount of sleight of hand, no slick propaganda, no weight of votes can change that or stop us voicing those fears.
And no, the classification of the port was not changed by some sleight of hand.
For example, in discussing the maintenance of polymorphisms he dismisses heterozygous advantage or heterosis as ' ' verbal sleight of hand ' ', but surely it is a testable hypothesis.
Isn't this just mathematical sleight of hand?
