Sentences with phrase «makes shrewd»

McAvoy makes shrewd changes in his posture, facial expressions and favored phrases to convey these distinctions.

Yet it generates surprising sympathy for its sociopathic protagonist [and] makes some shrewd points about pain, loss and urban violence.

He makes shrewd assessments of both Cameron and Osborne, and whilst seeing Osborne as a hard nosed transactional politician, warms to him as a colleague.

Back in the 1990s, Lee - Chin made a shrewd bet on the financial sector at the outset of a growth period.

(He also made a shrewd decision by choosing to attend New Jersey's Princeton University, a highly ranked Ivy League school in our overall rankings.)

This should be the downfall of Obama who made a shrewd but misculated move.

Chiarelli thinks that Chara would make a shrewd general manager (if not an intimidating trade negotiator on the draft floor).

O'Neill also made some shrewd moves for Carlos Cuellar and Louis Saha on free transfers from Aston Villa and Tottenham respectively, while Danny Rose also joined from Spurs on a season - long loan deal.

Gary Rowett has made some shrewd purchases during the off season, bringing in the much experienced Curtis Davies from Hull at the back, as well as Tom Huddlestone as well as Andre Wisdom from Liverpool, which will surely enhance his squad at this level.

Ed Balls made a shrewd move towards rehabilitation by announcing he would submit Labour's spending plans to the Office for Budget Responsibility.

But both Boulton and Jones are experienced political journalists and make shrewd observations about both personalities and events.

The strong supporting gallery - including Gillian Anderson and Martin Compston - feels underused, but Meier and her ace DoP Agnès Godard make shrewd use of the dramatic alpine locations.

Says Steiner, «Arne Duncan made the shrewd assumption that putting out a small number of winners at the beginning would motivate and challenge others to raise their level.»

In US News & World Report, Robert Pondiscio cleverly used a pop - culture tidbit to make a shrewd point about cultural literacy and schooling.

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Our point - by - point review makes it easy for you to find the specs you need, and we hope it provides guidance when it comes to making a shrewd vehicle purchase.

Has Amazon made a shrewd move in taking the Kindle so far upmarket, or has it completely lost the plot?

If you think you can improve on the indexing strategy by making shrewd forecasts, then the strategy isn't for you.

BVF made a shrewd investment when it recognized that Avigen's assets were severely undervalued after the negative clinical trial results reported last October.

By claiming that Cambridge Analytica's data use was both not a breach and yet also unauthorized, Facebook is making a shrewd move that may help the company avoid or ameliorate some liability.

Not exact matches

Sponsors inserted in the laws a provision allocating $ 1 million to implement the laws, a shrewd way to make it harder to overturn the laws by referendum because Michigan's constitution bars challenges of spending bills.

But make no mistake: at his core, Buffett is a shrewd financial genius.

Uncovering all that is needed to make a thoroughly informed investment decision in today's age of advanced data science has never been easier, but still requires shrewd effort.

In Saturday's case, a former federal cabinet minister renowned as one of his generation's shrewdest campaigners made good on yet another case of frontrunner status, having earlier this year easily seized the helm of the creaky PC ship and seamlessly executed a merger vote to fuse the Tories and Wildrosers into a single party.

And when in the strength of his omnipotent resolve, which is like his love, the God makes himself the equal of the humblest, let no innkeeper or professor of philosophy imagine that he is a shrewd enough fellow to detect anything, unless the God gives the condition.

A bunch of shrewd people made some laws to fool people and to control their minds, portrayed the whole thing as the laws were made by the God himself who everybody is afraid of but no one has witnessed.

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.»

But Lewis» popularity endures because of several reasons: his distinctive writing style, a tragic love affair and a shrewd choice he made early in his career, Lewis scholars say.

But at the same time he is shrewd enough to realize that if he really were the traditional Christians» Devil he would have to be an entertainer to make his case that without him the alternative is boredom without end.

Although there is much made of the extortionate fees paid for footballers, occasionally a shrewd piece of loan business can be done that is equally as effective as flashing the cash.

He never plans for contingency unless it means buying a multitude of mf midgets that he struggles to accommodate, always considered wenger shrewd and smart but for some time now I've questioned his decision making behind the scenes and during a game.

Hardly shrewd business to inflate the price of every single transfer target by stating you've got a fortune and make it less likely for AW to sign someone.

«You could accept that Sevilla are Europe's great selling club — with Porto they are probably the shrewdest at buying short and selling long and making huge profits.

And, if Wenger deems Bellerin «good enough» to be injected into the Arsenal senior XI at 19 years of age, that would be one welcome move from the Frenchman, who has already taken shrewd steps in this transfer window to make sure that Arsenal are one of the serious title contenders for the Premier League this season.

He has shown he * can * be as good a shrewd tactician as anyone without losing any of that fluency that makes us so good to watch and sets us apart from the other top sides.

He is shrewd and cunning when comes to spending money, or making some extra bucks on player sale.

A shrewd manager would be making firm plans to import another of this type from whatever source he can, because were Cazorla now only 25 and fit to play he would be worth a huge fortune in todays market.

Jack Adams, the Detroit general manager, is one of the shrewdest hockey men in the business, and when he made the Lindsay - Hall deal with the Black Hawks he was certain that it would prove an advantageous one for the Red Wings.

But three years on, it appears that the deal was a shrewd piece of business from the side of Louis van Gaal, who had made it clear that there was no space in his side for Welbeck.

As has been mentioned earlier he is not a DM but I believe the Wilshere setback, along with the winding down of Arteta / Rosickys contracts makes this a very shrewd January purchase.

Davis is a 48.8 % passer and a 30 - yard - a-game runner — he is more apt to scamper from sideline to sideline than to head down - field — but it is his convincing fakes, perfectly timed pitches and shrewd reading of keys that make Houston's attack hum.

However, general manager Rick Spielman made a couple other shrewd...

Much was made of Tottenham's apparently shrewd business dealings over the summer, with a host of top internationals being brought in to make up for the loss of the talismanic Gareth Bale.

He is a shrewd businessman and saw that we were in a healthy financial position with a good chance of reaching the promised land and in the process making him even richer than he already is if we could manage to stay there.

The 34 - year - old Brazilian was the latest in the line of shrewd free transfers made by the Juventus front office in the last half - decade.

We upgraded in quality, and while we would have preferred to keep Sanchez, we made the best of bad hand getting Miki, a very shrewd acquisition.

Let's face it, his # 11m buy wasn't the shrewdest move Arsene has ever made.

In that case Cameron made possibly the shrewdest political move of his entire career and, if rumours are to be believed, scared Gordon Brown out of calling an Autumn election.

In her new memoir, former Planned Parenthood chief Cecile Richards says Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were, during the 2016 transition, so eager to be recognized as shrewd political dealmakers that they made an offer that felt like a «bribe» — an increase in federal funding for her organization in exchange for its agreement to stop providing abortions.

He might not be inclined to run against Corbyn, but the shrewdest move Corbyn could make would be to drop out of the race and endorse Lewis.