Sentences with phrase «through shrewd»

Through shrewd planning, careful purchasing and sensible promotions profits can be enhanced.

The last thing you want to do is to build something truly epic, only for someone to absolutely decimate it through some shrewd use of TNT...

But you can drag out the inevitable for some time - eking out an isometric existence through shrewd scavenging, food sourcing, and first aid.

In other words, will a VC generate strong returns because they are good at finding the best companies and entrepreneurs to invest in, or will the returns be generated by adding value to companies through shrewd strategic guidance and savvy recruiting and team - building?

Despite formidable opponents like the current President of the American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten, and the current Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, not to mention legions of anti-reformers who prowl the fact - free corners of the internet, Moskowitz has succeeded through her shrewd use of the media, her high - powered network, and unrelenting drive inherited from her Holocaust - surviving ancestors.

Through shrewd deals and strategic marriages, he controlled neighboring kingdoms without sending a single warrior to die.

Where Chelsea and the directors have been very smart is with the amount of money brought back into the club through shrewd dealings.

Although profit is earned through the shrewd management of the vig (the commission taken by the casino) and by moving odds quickly in response to money coming in, with low bet limits even the most profitable individual prop bet pales in comparison to bets on the game result.

The company became a poster child for the dotcom crash, but Boyd restructured the company into a global travel - booking site, largely through the shrewd, $ 135 million purchase of Booking.com in 2005.

The collapse of two high - profile deals in such a short time frame is a rarity for Buffett, who has spent decades building Berkshire into a sprawling conglomerate through shrewd takeovers.

Next to him, grinning widely, was the man who had assembled the acquired company: Stefano Pessina, an Italian billionaire who had started with one local pharmaceutical distributor in 1977 and, through shrewd and voluminous dealmaking, built it into the $ 40 billion, 4,600 - store Alliance Boots.

Not exact matches

For I would add, «I have no faith at all, I am by nature a shrewd pate, and every such person always has great difficulty in making the movements of faith — not that I attach, however, in and for itself, any value to this difficulty which through the overcoming of it brought the clever head further than the point which the simplest and most ordinary man reaches more easily.»

A tough, shrewd, and principled Republican president might still get a constitutionalist judge through the Senate even under those circumstances (though it might involve killing the filibuster), but it would be a long, grinding battle.

While he was praised highly for some of his shrewd purchases of players, it isn't until you really delve through the Villa ranks and discover who is no longer involved in first - team affairs that you unravel where the whole Randy Lerner (Aston Villa owner) Martin O'Neill relationship really went wrong, with the club's acquisitions of several talented individuals not enough to overshadow the large number of flops which entered Villa Park via O'Neill's say - so, nor did it help balance the books.

Accusations that she's a) obsessed with independence, and b) not getting on with the day job have cut through to voters and like the shrewd politician she is, Sturgeon delivered an address that could hardly be criticised for ignoring bread - and - butter issues.

You've never seen these scenes through the eyes of writer - director Fargeat, though, who here is making an uncommonly shrewd, sadistic, and artful debut.

This won't come as a surprise to most parents, but such a shrewd release strategy all but ensures that (a) some of these episodes may never be released on home video, and (b) you'll pay through the nose by the time you're done.

They find some fearsome friends along the way, a family of longhorn - herding T. rexes whose gravelly voiced patriarch (Sam Elliott) has some shrewd advice for Arlo: «You can't get rid of fear but you can get through it.»

Presenting the many sides of this inspiring yet infuriating character, Leigh's latest also shows him as a shrewd, progressive painter who earns the respect of his preposterously pompous Royal Academy peers through sheer force of talent, tearing through the annual exhibition like a cyclone.

The scene is introduced with a shrewd recurring device — an onscreen teletype legend that tells moviegoers what's happening, but only through the warping prism of FBI surveillance.

From Phyllis Nagy's script (adapting the 1952 novel The Price of Salt) through the loving cinematography from Edward Lachman (not as flashy as the Mad Max: Fury Roads and Sicarios of the world, but no less impactful), from the shrewd editing of Affonso Goncalves to Carter Burwell's understated yet foundational score and Sandy Powell's beautiful costuming, Haynes has put together a professional crew that sets the tone with aplomb.

This sensibility threads through many of the actor's film and television characters, particularly his current role as shrewd hedge fund manager Bobby Axelrod on «Billions.»

It also pulls a shrewd and nervy career - best performance from Robert Pattinson as small - time crook Connie, relentlessly hustling through one crazed night to spring his learning - disabled brother Nick (a touchingly vulnerable Benny Safdie) from a police - guarded hospital.

The latest model has been put through its paces by shrewd critics from publications like Edmunds, Motor Trend, Car and Driver, and Kelley Blue Book.

The difference being that while the starving writer «waits» to be discovered, going through rejection after rejection — from agents — the self - pubbed author with shrewd usage of Social Media and Indie Author networks can begin making 35 cents to 70 cents PER COPY.

... Walk through the holes in their attention») and entertains us with shrewd observations about the curious habits and habitations of humanity.

Will your shrewd business sense help you rise through the ranks to the coveted market «Sweet Spot,» or will your find the balance between ambitious entrepreneur and generous neighbor?

His museum - filling retrospective confirmed him as our shrewdest tour guide through the ruins of the last century's utopias — as well as a brilliant student of music, from Schoenberg to The Clash.

Cracco works with an understanding of color theory's construction of images from three or four colors, but works through these limitations by hand - mixing his palette to show a shrewd understanding of tone and hue.

Indeed, the same shrewd honesty and liberated spontaneity that guide Ginsberg's poetry are also channelled through his lens.