Sentences with phrase «more shrewd»

If you want to compete with your peers you will have go the extra step and be more shrewd and resourceful than other candidates.

... we need to work in a more shrewd and contemporary way, using subtle techniques of engagement.

The mod changes the damage values of the game's weapons to be more «accurate», makes the defense values of in - game armor more realistic, adds slower character progression in term's of the stats system, makes your hunger & thirst meters go down more rapidly and makes the shopkeepers in the game more shrewd about the prices they give for items that are bought or sold.

Blue Labour, for its part, needs to be a little less «agitational» and a little more shrewd at using language which will appeal to Labour party members — it's broken into mainstream debate now, no need to overuse provocative language just to get noticed.

The more shrewd gamblers would never contemplate doing that.

This admonition is not, however, a call to ever more shrewd and effective management.

The significance of the master's commendation is expressed by the clause, «for the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.»

But that was a more shrewd than conciliatory strategy on the government's part: Today marks the 86th birthday of the nation's much adored monarch, King Bhumibol, an occasion that calls for sober celebration and peace.

Not exact matches

In other words, change creates opportunity for those who are shrewd enough to see it — and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent in today's global economy than in China.

«I think a shrewd person can find more bargain stocks in China than he can find in the United States,» Munger said.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

Our daily life is influenced far more than the shrewdest of us suspect by the subconscious activity which is at work, exercising a selective power even in apparently accidental choices.

The more selfish Agnes is, the easier the deceit will prove for him (for it is only very inexperienced people who suppose that it is easy to deceive innocence; existence is very profound, and it is in fact the easiest thing for the shrewd to fool the shrewd)-- but all the more terrible will be the merman's sufferings.

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.»

The more one ponders that question, the more theologically shrewd Brother Jorge's reply appears: Christ was fully capable of laughing, but he didn't do so.

But even I can appreciate that Joseph Smith is more obviously a shrewd manipulator.

(By the way, experts who study supermarket - shopper behavior seem to agree that, on the whole, men are kind of idiots — far more likely to be distracted by flashy bells and whistles and walk home with a completely unnecessary corkscrew than women, whom supermarket designer Kelley called «shrewd» and thoughtful in comparison.

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With 20 goals already this season he may prove to be a shrewd piece of business for a mid-table club looking to add more firepower up front, and not only that, he is a seasoned Champions League veteran.

Wenger is very shrewd with spotting fullbacks, it's one area were he's gotten them right allot more often than he has wrong.

Musial was also a shrewd businessman who had more success after his playing career than most of his contemporaries.

That creates even more contrarian value that shrewd bettors can take advantage of.

We now have it due to frugal man - management by Wenger and shrewd negotiations by the Board with companies like Puma and Emirates and many more.

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.

When it comes to Spending money, Wenger has to be the shrewdest manager in the world of football and that's probably why the media seem to concentrate more on Arsenal fc than any other club, during the transfer windows.

Following the shrewd acquisition of pint - sized midfielder Santi Cazorla in the summer who has already become a hit over at the Emirates this season,... [Read more...]

Shevchenko had scored more than 180 league goals in little more than 320 games for his previous sides but, as any shrewd fan was well aware, he had lost a yard of pace and was very much on the wane.

(more general murmurs of agreement) Reg: All right... all right... but apart from better stadium and training ground and players and trophies and youth policy and cup finals and shrewd buys... what has Wenger done for us?

It would be shrewd of me to just say that Walcott cut inside more because his passes do not fully reflect his movement.

Harry meanwhile, having triumphantly routed the prosecution at his trial, inexplicably failing to substitute the struggling centre back William Gallas against Chelsea at Wembley seeing Spurs slip away in the concluding games of the season, architect of those superb displays against Milan in the European Cup, he remains as a supreme wheeler dealer, much though he hates the description, immensely wiser, shrewder and more worldly wise than he ever claimed to be in court, I feel he would always be happier at club level.

Arsene Wenger is well known for being a tough and shrewd negotiator, and there is a feeling that the Suarez bid is nothing more than a ploy.

If Christie is perhaps the more naturally gifted politician, Cuomo is considerably shrewder.

If the more promising opinion polls on the last day had been right, Miliband might have been able to address his party with a tone of some vindication — many of the judgments he had made, often criticised and even derided by his own side, looking shrewd and ultimately rather effective.

Mr. Silver had served for more than two decades as the Assembly speaker, imposing his will on matters large and small; he had a reputation as a staunch defender of New York City, a shrewd negotiator in budget talks and, at times, a recalcitrant opponent of anything he disliked.

Volunteers between 67 and 85 took longer to figure out the shrewdest investment, and activity in the striatum, a region critical to sensing reward, was more sporadic.

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Arnie was very shrewd when he said that doing some resistance training was way more than just lifting a weight from one point to another.

It's a more stable offering than Unity ever was with engaging protagonists, a monster of a city to get lost in, and some shrewd tweaks to the time - tested formula.

Critics Consensus: Sharp, shrewd, and funny, Friends with Kids features excellent performances that help smooth over some of the story's more conventional elements.

With his heavy Bronx accent, Tony Curtis is more earnest than accurate as Antoninus, «duh singah of sawngs,» but the other cast members are excellent, particularly Charles Laughton as the shrewd Roman council member Gracchus, Laurence Olivier (exuding white - collar wickedness) as Roman leader Crassus and scene - stealing Peter Ustinov as the droll slave trader Batiatus.

Horror fans, broadly speaking, have come to regard conspicuous gimmicks and ostentatious high concepts with skepticism over the years, as filmmakers — and, more often still, shrewd producers — have exhausted every novelty of form or structure in a bid to seize upon the latest trend.

Sally Potter has made not only her most accessible picture to date, but also a shrewd demonstration of the less - is - more principle.

But with «The Party,» availing herself of a zinger - heavy script and an unimprovable cast, the director has made not only her most accessible picture to date, but also a shrewd demonstration of the less - is - more principle.

Having been at tetchy, irritable cross purposes early in the series, now they were back in harness as intuitive covert operative and her shrewd and politically savvy handler, with Mandy Patinkin's Saul (pictured below) growing steadily more unforgiving and black - hearted.

Actor Luke Evans enters the fray as Bard the boatman, a man who is more than meets the eye and our company's ticket into Laketown, where a shrewd Mayor played by Stephen Fry awaits them.

Those assembled, including Uther's best knight, Sir Bedivere (Djimon Hounsou, blessedly deviating from stock villainous roles with a stock heroic one), nod with respect at the man's shrewd acumen, but in so many respects he resembles nothing more than a clever street urchin.

House of Lies [Showtime, Sundays, 10 / 9C] paints a picture of management consultants that's so rude, shrewd and, more than occasionally lewd that one suspects that there's more than a little truth to their depiction.

The shrewd business manager that buys out of season could potentially wring a lot more from their budget.

DeVos is a shrewd political operative, more so than our typical political appointee.

Robbie Burns, AKA «The Naked Trader», has proven to be a very shrewd yet characterful entrepreneur, scooping tax - free gains of more than $ 2 million since the turn of the millennium.