Sentences with phrase «very shrewd»

Putting a smart - home hub inside the Echo is «a very shrewd move to capitalize on the fact that they're one of the world's largest e-tailers,» said Paul Erickson, an analyst from IHS.

He's very shrewd and rude.

Jenny Jones is «very shrewd and clever, extremely hardworking and very pleasant to deal with», and Michael Stokes is «hugely experienced, thoughtful and wise».

I don't doubt that Trump is a very shrewd individual.....

He told Cohen - Solal: «Leo was always very generous, very shrewd, and very very loyal.

But if you see stubbornness and determination as a sort of intelligence, Chow Chow is very shrewd.

«Growing up, I had heard stories that he was a very shrewd businessman.

'' It was a very shrewd policy in the 50's and 60's, when there were highly inefficient markets: buying undervalued assets, running them for cash and selling off pieces.

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.

I'm an Chinese / Jewish but, most people think, I'm from Vietnam, well my half grand parent is really from VN and I think I have great upbringing, I was born in South Beach in FL, but I have my adult upbringing in Canada, UK and later in Israel, I have Chinese Dad, while my Mum is from Israel... I'm a very funny gal, most of my friends use to tell me that, I am a very smart person, as per human being, in business, I am very shrewd, I am very persuasive, I think I'm a good sales person, I'm a Christian, I have a passion for what I'm doing mostly..

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.

He could be a very shrewd long - term investment which may go unnoticed by many traders.

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.

I do nt know if hed want to move or if utd could sell him as hes on enormous wages but if we could get him somehow... well then i believe it would be a very shrewd signing.

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.

I thought 24 mil for 30 yr old rvp soon out of contract albeit still firing on all cylinders was a very shrewd deal considering the rapid drop in resale value after he left.

Mourinho is a very shrewd manager, but the truth is we have a very good manager ourselves, one who many would love to have and not many could better run our club.

The other club interested are Lyon, who are usually very shrewd in the transfer market and clearly think they can get their man at a bargain after months of not playing in the first team.

But here again, you really need connections and a very shrewd mind.

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

Some very shrewd minorities gravitate to the conservative party just because of the opportunity and rewards that would come with it.

Just as our peoples, at a certain moment of their history, were mature enough to say «no» to all forms of political colonization, so too in our families we need to be very wise, very shrewd, very strong, in order to say «no» to all attempts at an ideological colonization of our families.

I think it is very shrewd of Taylor to remark that if justification by faith alone had been the sole issue, it would have been possible for Protestants and Catholics to live together in relative peace.

«People who do private - equity investments right are very shrewd and very driven to focus on key issues like investment return and exit strategies,» says Gary Simon, a partner at the New York City - based law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist Parker Chapin.

Almost my entire career, I have had to deal with very shrewd business people in monster - size transactions.

«Here we were, negotiating our butts off with a very shrewd company that does these deals every day,» he says.

«He's very shrewd,» says his former colleague White.

Not exact matches

Now I know all kinds of shrewd people who by staying within a narrow area can do very well without reading.

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.

wenger is a shrewd character, yet his transfer activity seems to go against his very nature,

Sanchez, Welbeck, Chamber, Ospina and Debuchy are very good and shrewd signings.

Everything they done was said to be shrewd, old fashioned, but very very classy.

Reason is, Arsene is a very smart and shrewd Manager.

if we lose ozil an sanchez he will just blag someone else from big club, he is still very respected and not without his shrewd forms of persuasion.

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

Not as shrewd as Wengers it seems, but alas Wenger turning a near 500 % profit on transfers seems to be worth very little.

Tottenham may not have got their first choice targets, or players of the very highest calibre — but a couple of shrewd additions have arrived.

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.

Ms. Mayer is a shrewd executive and a very smart lady and she's been tasked with a massive job.

This is one of those rare political memoirs, self - deprecating and amusing, which are very readable, revealing much about the author's private and public lives and offering shrewd observations about opposition politics and the pressures of ministerial life.

It is always dangerous dealing with people who may be intelligent without depth, shrewd without vision, jocular without humour.People whose friends don't like him and courageously describe them as cold and pompous.We heard Kennedy Agyepong openly insult every soul in the Npp including the flagbearer, we heard him call on Akans to wipe off Gas and Ewes from Ghana and heard Osafo Marfo one personality I hitherto admired so much, declare citizens from some particular regions unfit to occupy the executive seat.Nana did not find these inhuman and obnoxious outbursts as insulting, didn't find it expedient bringing these henchmen to order.We heard Ursula who is a spiritual confidant of Nana painfully say on public platform that had it not been free education, many of our northern appointees would have been managers of cows not human beings.This was how far people who are very close to him went.Antwi another close associate courageously referred to Fantes as «fickle minded» fit only for concert shows.

Thanks in part to very clever and shrewd marketing tactics, who can blame America for thinking some or all of those things about soy.

Many have an image of Ms. Monroe as a ditsy blonde, but there are a couple of well - documented autobiographies that show a pretty shrewd business person and one very aware of her marketable and valuable public image.

Her face has a pinched girlish prettiness combined with a shrewd, slightly school - mistressy intelligence — the sort of face that can appear very young and quite old at the same time.

Restall credibly argues that as the shrewd leader of a very advanced civilization, Montezuma was neither weak nor fearful.

This news sounds very encouraging and it shows that the shrewd decision to lower the price point of the Kindle ebook reader to $ 189 has removed the potential threat of the «Kindle - killer», Apple iPad.

However, in the very next sentence he adds, «If he wants to be shrewd he can look for the ever - present bargain opportunities in individual securities.»

Norwegian Forest Cats give the impression of great strength as they are large cats with long muscular bodies, but they are also very elegant, affectionate, playful and seriously shrewd!

For what it's worth, on the one occasion we've met, I found Dr Curry shrewd, insightful, very funny - and vivacious and attractive.

Chambers Global 2017 recognises Natalia as a Dispute Resolution Foreign Expert for Russia, and notes that she is a «very bright, robust and shrewd tactician who fights her client's corner and goes the extra mile.»