Sentences with phrase «shrewd politician»
A "shrewd politician" refers to someone who is very skilled at understanding and manipulating political situations to their advantage. They are clever and cunning in their approach and can make calculated decisions to achieve their goals. Full definition
Instead, political parties are forced to play a longer game while shrewd politicians begin to stock up on integrity for the inevitable moments when their judgement goes astray.
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«The prime minister of Israel is a very shrewd politician.
At this point, a shrewder politician would have moved on to something else, but Udall spent the rest of the campaign futilely trying to convince the public that that Gardner was going to ban contraception.
Newt Gingrich is nothing if not a shrewd politician.
His high approval rating and reputation as a ruthless and shrewd politician has a lot of lawmakers running scared, although they're starting to speak out against his budget in increasing numbers.
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.
Of course, the third man behind Klein is LBJ, the «master of the Senate» — a shrewd politician who carefully used power and influence to get what he wanted.
In Eisenhower: In War and Peace (Random House, # 25.58), Smith claims that President Eisenhower was a shrewd politician, who successfully negotiated an end to the Korean War and refused to get drawn into preventative wars with the Soviet Union and China.
If this is accurate, Jindal is a shrewd politician.
Waxman's also a shrewd politician with campaign contributions helping elect a Democratic majority and helping him jump the seniority queue on sub-committee and committee chairmanships.
That he provided deniability with Scenarios B and C and that he, or at least his supporters, could claim that the modelers are only responsible for the models given the correct inputs and further that no one is going to run the models with the actual correct inputs makes Jim Hansen, in my eyes, one shrewd politician.
Which is why, in a better world, some shrewd politician would amp up the current energy bill (instead of paring it down), and include green jobs provisions to address both concerns.
Originally it meant the science of ideas; but shrewd politicians like Napoleon Bonaparte corrupted it to mean something more pejorative, even sinister.