Sentence examples for a canny strategy from inspiring English sources

The magpie approach is a canny strategy, leaving little opportunity for energy levels to dip.

And it turns out to be a canny strategy, paying off not just on the bottom line but dramatically as well.

This enabled her to resist the pressure to marry and solve the succession problem, and to sit out crises through a canny strategy of "watchful inaction".

It's a canny strategy, allowing Craig, Mendes and producer Barbara Broccoli to bolster both their artistic credibility and their product placement fees.

For the twenty-three-year-old Bieber, singing in Spanish about grownup flirtation is a canny strategy to telegraph the maturity he seems so desperate to attain just as long as he can remember the lyrics.

Fanda (Vlastimil Brodsky), the incorrigibly irresponsible codger whose misbehavior in "Autumn Spring" is a canny strategy for warding off death, is one of those adorable but exasperating old folks who refuse to play by the rules or act their age.

Reviving civil society may reduce spending in the long run by cutting the demand for government (and thus is perhaps a cannier strategy than simply cutting the supply of government).

But it appears to be a cannier strategy than that, born of political expediency and similar to a strategy used by Bill Bradley, the former New Jersey senator, who took on the vice president, Al Gore, for the party's presidential nomination in 2000.

"It tells us that reformers need to have a more canny strategy to succeed and overcome not just public opinion but the myriad vested interests," he said.

Though the casual viewer might assume that networks want to bury their lesser products at mid-season (to be used only if the fall fails to provide a hit), there's actually a much more canny strategy at work -- one that has certainly served ABC well thus far.

Froome's third stage win of this year's Tour came courtesy of a combination of powerful riding and canny strategy.