Sentence examples for This acumen from inspiring English sources

"I hardly know whether it would not have been better for the human race if this swift movement of thought, this acumen, this cleverness, which we call reason, had not been given to man at all, since it is a plague to many and salutary to a few, rather than given so abundantly and so lavishly".--Cicero.

Or, does it illustrate (too well, in this case) the acumen of the Pentagon in the mediating of war access?

Ironically, this business acumen is depriving Southall of its best photographic advertisement.

Now he says that he can apply this brilliant acumen to rescue Italy from left-wing tyranny, debt and unemployment.

This commercial acumen is the industry consensus of what PPR – the parent company of Balenciaga, along with Gucci, Saint Laurent Paris and Alexander McQueen – want in the aftermath of Ghesquière.

And this business acumen is equally on display at the Courtauld, in Portrait of a Man, whom Picasso's biographer John Richardson identified as Ambroise Vollard, the respected dealer of Cézanne and Gauguin, who gave Picasso his first Paris gallery exhibition in 1901.

Why is this and what is the Acumen Fund doing to encourage this migration of ideas and entrepreneurship?

Realizing this, firms like the Acumen Fund and NESsT are pioneering a specialized segment of private equity called impact investing.

This interview with Jacqueline Novogratz, chief executive of the Acumen Fund, which invests in businesses aiding the world's poor, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant.

I would not have expected this level of acumen based on his performance in the campaign.

Besides her astrological acumen, this is the reason her clients say they love her so much: she is a constant in their harried lives.