She swapped cars with her daughter after numerous phone calls finagling the daughter a ride and finally made it in, late and angry. ❋ 1 Dinosaur (2007)
This explains the "finagling" I referred to that had to be done, in order to make the words fit. ❋ Belinda (2009)
On the one hand, they can allow the election to proceed with minimal "finagling," in which case they are almost certain to lose the House and possibly the Senate as well, with the dire consequences noted above. ❋ Unknown (2006)
This can mean a corporation finagling mineral rights on public lands for almost nothing or taking control of essential public services to make money rather than serve the greater social good. ❋ Jay Walljasper (2012)
The idea of a transcontinental railroad was an engineering dream of early America – and in 1869, after a lot of politicking, land-finagling and hard business nous, the first route opened from New York to California. ❋ Anna Pickard (2010)
And while celebrities have ways of finagling themselves tickets to official premieres -- I think there's a secret handshake or something -- plenty of them turned out to "slum it" with their adoring public for public screenings of the movie. ❋ Unknown (2009)
My theory is that the White House believed (rightly) that they has a strong public-opinion tailwind a on HCR when they came into office, and that getting a bill passed was a matter of finagling the last few votes in the Senate, not selling the public on something that they already supported. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The installation took a bit of creative finagling. ❋ Unknown (2010)
While Kanye snagged a coup by finagling collaboration with Giuseppe Zanotti for the line's footwear, the cream beaded and fur-trimmed sling backs worn reminded me of crustaceans. ❋ Marjon Rebecca Carlos (2011)
Complicated regulations encourage super-complicated finagling to get around them. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The mainstream media, owned by the same corporations that have made their billions in financial finagling of the tax code, loves to ridicule and marginalize our movement. ❋ Carl Gibson (2011)
If you were finagling around with a married woman and you weren't, I might be more sympathetic! ❋ Unknown (2009)
Regarding regulatory czar Cass Sunstein's Aug. 23 op-ed, "Washington Is Eliminating Red Tape" : The savings outlined by Mr. Sunstein don't even represent one-quarter of 1% of total private-sector compliance costs—and that assumes that the savings are realized and not just bureaucratic finagling for political purposes. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He always seems to be finagling, playing the angles in some higher game that only he gets. ❋ Peggy Noonan (2011)
"We're thrilled, especially because I find it a very difficult role that he does so well, which is a little bit of someone who's finagling and cutting ethical corners," Robert King added. ❋ Unknown (2011)
After setting a time for pick up with the store and finagling the automotive services of my ex-boyfriend, I arrived at the store to find out that they ran out of rope and would not help us out. ❋ Unknown (2009)
