Different parts of the world have a knack for different things.

And New York has another kind of knack for contemporary art.

She has a real knack for getting people to do what she wants.

Different generations of Darrell men solved their debt crises by marrying rich old women I imagine them as a bunch of handsome guys, with a knack for wooing heiresses.

After all, as Joseph Schumpeter famously observed, market based systems have long had an uncanny knack for self healing. But this was all but disallowed in the post crisis era by US government bailouts and the Fed s manipulation of asset prices.

To be sure, China is careful to avoid any dramatic action that could become a casus belli by itself. Indeed, it has repeatedly shown a knack for disaggregating its strategy into multiple parts and then pursuing each element separately in such a manner as to allow the different pieces to fall into place with minimal resistance.