Nimbler

He’s also nimbler than me in his heels.

Murphy said CWB can be nimbler than some of its competitors, such as the big banks, when it comes to holistic solutions for clients.

In practice, the political breakthrough will continue to favour a more elastic and nimbler take on sterling’s ascendancy and the notion that it favours UK-orientated over internationally focused stocks.

American independent producers, nimbler than the state-owned behemoths of the Middle East and Europe, can increase or decrease output rapidly in response to changing market signals.

At the same time enterprises are looking for ways to become nimbler to compete with disruptive start-ups.

Sales in stores open more than a year were down 2.3% while online sales grew 12.3%, meaning around a fifth of its sales are now online, about half the proportion of its nimbler rival John Lewis.

The smaller, nimbler, and faster Monitor was able to outmaneuver the larger, slower Virginia, but neither ship proved able to do any severe damage to the other, despite numerous shell hits by both combatants, many fired at virtually point-blank range.