This pope, being a remarkably skillful and learned lawyer, caused to be prepared Nova Compilatio decretalium, which was promulgated in numerous copies in 1234.

There is always, however, the understanding that a more skillful, or technical, logician could have produced successful modifications that would not be considered a " hack-job ".

Because hardbat killer shots are almost impossible to hit against a skilled player, hardbat matches focus on the strategic side of table tennis, requiring skillful maneuvering of the opponent before an attack can become successful.

Those efforts have been successful enough for the series to be awarded a Parents ' Choice Award in 1990 for its educational value through Stan's " skillful weaving of facts and legends into his work.

The ship captains of Norwich and New London who were skillful at avoiding Imperial taxation during peacetime later were just as successful eluding warships during war.

Marco Aurelio Severino ( 1580 – 1656 ), a skillful surgeon and anatomist, performed multiple successful tracheotomies during a diphtheria epidemic in Naples in 1610, using the vertical incision technique recommended by Fabricius.

The most famous member of the Montefeltro was Federico III ( or II ), Duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482, a very successful condottiere, a skillful diplomat and an enthusiastic patron of art and literature.

The skillful airborne seizure of Fort Eben-Emael permitted the early capture of Belgium and, alongside successful operations in Holland, was crucial for the speed of the German victories in 1940.

Throughout his career, Capano-widely seen as a skillful player-has battled the perception that he was too small and slight to forge a successful career in MLS.

The Wichita were successful hunters and farmers, skillful traders and negotiators.

He was not a skillful politician, but he was successful in reducing the public stigma attached to Islam.

This skillful flight and ability to bowl, without change of action, a much faster ball that went with his arm ( that is, from off to leg stump instead of from leg to off ) allowed him to be successful even on dry and true pitches ( as he showed against a strong Middlesex side at Tonbridge in 1903 ).

Attack grids are relative to the orientation of one's warrior, so skillful management of attack grids becomes very important to successful gameplay.

He was compared to other lawyers by one who knew him as a " sound lawyer and superior to them all as a fluent, graceful and successful advocate and in the skillful management of his cases.

When the family arrived in Johannesburg, they found that the senior Galli ( skillful as a craftsman in wood ) had established a successful furniture factory.

Sherman felt that his own part in the campaign was skillful and well executed but that the slowness of a part of his army robbed him of the larger fruits of victory.

Kościuszko's work at Saratoga received great praise from Gen. Gates, who later told his friend Dr. Benjamin Rush "... the great tacticians of the campaign were hills and forests, which a young Polish engineer was skillful enough to select for my encampment ".

Paris was seen by some as the front-runner for much of the campaign, but skillful lobbying by London's supporters and an inspirational final presentation by Sebastian Coe led to the success of its bid.

However his most effective campaign strategy was to emphasize how the affluent Brock, through skillful use of the tax code by his accountants, had been able to pay less than $ 2, 000 in income taxes the previous year ; an amount considerably less than that paid by many Tennesseans of far more modest means.

And by a skillful and unobtrusive use of imagery ( the enclosure is called a `` Roman-camp stockade '', the hastily erected lean-to is a `` Babylonian hovel '', the men begin to look like `` Peruvian mummies '' and to acquire `` Gothic faces '' ), Malraux projects a fresco of human endurance -- which is also the endurance of the human -- stretching backward into the dark abyss of time.

There are other countries where, with skillful diplomacy, we may be able by our aid to give encouragement to those groups in government which would like to press forward with economic and social reform measures to promote growth.

He had already shown a strong inclination for natural science, and this had been fostered by his intimacy with a " self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician ," as Sir Walter Scott called him, of great local fame — James Veitch of Inchbonny — a man who was particularly skillful in making telescopes.

Hannibal, by skillful maneuvers, was in position to head him off, for he lay on the direct road between Placentia and Arminum, by which Sempronius would have to march to reinforce Scipio.

Carson lost the battle, but most authorities give him credit for a skillful defense and a wise decision to withdraw when confronted by numerically superior Indian army.

See Michael Buckland's conclusion: " Bush's contributions in this area were twofold: ( i ) A significant engineering achievement by the team under his leadership in building a truly rapid prototype microfilm selector, and ( ii ) a speculative article, ' As We May Think ,' which, through its skillful writing and the social prestige of its author, has had an immediate and lasting effect in stimulating others.

Both men suggested that tetravalent carbon atoms could link to each other to form a carbon lattice, and that the detailed patterns of atomic bonding could be discerned by skillful interpretations of appropriate chemical reactions.

Faction triumphed in Athens following a minor Spartan victory by their skillful general Lysander at the naval battle of Notium in 406 BC.

He produced a skillful suggested reconstruction, which was soon being circulated by the Society of Antiquaries alongside its prints of the inscription.

Rex Ingram's films were considered by many contemporary directors to be artistic and skillful, with an imaginative and bold visual style.

In his public role, he believed he could achieve more by skillful accommodation to the social realities of the age of segregation.

In Brabant, skillful work by the duke of that territory and the Count of Hainaut-Holland foiled various French manipulations.

A skillful Foley artist can make someone walking calmly across the screen seem terrified simply by giving the actor a different gait.

Augustus succeeded by means of skillful propaganda.

In contrast, linear could describe the painting of artists such as Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Ingres, whose works depend on creating the illusion of a degree of three-dimensionality by means of " modeling the form " through skillful drawing, shading, and an academic rather than impulsive use of color.

It was won by the Bulgarians after a skillful ambush using the help of their Cuman and Greek allies.

He convinced the United States Congress of the value of this work and by means of the liberal aid it granted, he completed the mapping out of the whole coast by a skillful division of labor and the erection of numerous observing stations.

In general, such a problem is very difficult to solve, but in this particular case, it can be solved by a skillful guess due to the square dependence of the tidal potential on the radial distance Δd

However, through skillful generalship by Brasidas, the Spartans rout the Athenians in the Battle of Amphipolis.

Many engravings were created by the skillful Charles George Lewis ( 1808 – 1880 ), one of the finest engravers of his day.

A hollow semblance of friendship was maintained between Constantine and Irene, whose title of empress was confirmed in 792 ; but the rival factions remained, and Irene, by skillful intrigues with the bishops and courtiers, organized a powerful conspiracy on her own behalf.

He is a skillful observer of human nature, inquisitive by nature, energetic, a talented herbalist ( work he learned in the Holy Lands ), and has an innate, although modern, sense of justice and fair-play.