Only professional criminals are equally adept at adopting, adapting and discarding new identities.

As a player, the 6ft 4in, bearded midfield star was a stylish performer equally adept with either foot.

He was an immediate success, specialising in crime and soon acquired a busy practice, being equally adept when defending or prosecuting.

The performers, equally adept at gracefully expansive movement and text, are crucial to the show's success.

He was equally adept at winning over financial backers.

They are especially adept at picking up crisp crumbs and/or evidence of illicit biscuit eating.

She was especially adept on the subjects of acting and verisimilitude, the appearance of being real.

They weren't even especially adept criminals, knocking off farmoredrugstores, filling stations and supermarkets than actual banks.

They need to think more like poets, who are especially adept at mixing categories, talking about one thing in terms of other things.

He became especially adept at making stoneware pots using hakeme decoration and others glazed with copper-green.

He says he proved remarkably adept at uniting the party's widely differing factions.

Gales of laughter often accompanied her sallies in the courtroom, and she proved remarkably adept at putting her would-be captors on the defensive and making them look like fools.

That said, tobacco companies have proved remarkably adept at shrugging off such regulatory threats in the past to ride boldly on.

On the whole, they proved remarkably adept and resilient.

The sector has been remarkably adept at bringing customers through the doors, particularly through heavily promoted weekend and short breaks, but these are low-margin activities.

We can all be physical, but not everybody can be technically adept.

We can all be physical, but not everybody can be technically adept, that needs training and faith in that style.

How do we produce enough bright, technically adept players that we do not overburden the rare exceptions?

Football coaches in this country need to get up to speed with how other industries, such as the military and aviation, are not just developing technically adept people, but leaders.

The founders, though technically adept, were inexperienced as managers.