Sentence examples for a shrewd purchase from inspiring English sources

It now looks a shrewd purchase.

It was a shrewd purchase, to say the least.

Martínez's decision to sign Gómez from Espanyol in 2008, when manager of Swansea City, has proved a shrewd purchase.

Making such a shrewd purchase this spring will surely ease your pain next spring, when even better digicams poke their leafy green tendrils up through the damp ground.

EA made a shrewd purchase in 1997 when it bought Maxis, creator of the popular mainstream PC game SimCity.

It was Ed Woodward who spent the summer transfer window running up and down blind alleys, and it was the owners who were in control of the purse strings when Arturo Vidal and Mateo Kovacic were considered poor value for money but £16m for an out-of-contract Ashley Young was deemed a shrewd purchase.

Most of his £3bn is based on his shrewd purchase of BHS in 2000.

He has made some shrewd purchases, like the Marc Newson Sci-Fi vase he bought in a sale at B&B Italia for £80.

The beginning of Moscow's rise to its later preeminence came during the reign of Daniel's son Ivan (1328 41), who, by cooperating with Öz Beg, khan of the Golden Horde, and also by his shrewd purchases (probably of tax-farming rights), greatly expanded the influence of his principality.

A small-time candy distributor in Kennett Square, Pa., he graduated to running a big-time Ponzi scheme in which investors were expecting foolproof returns said to be based on Burry's shrewd purchases of overstocked supplies from Hershey and others.

The retired Robbie Savage will be missed, but Nigel Clough has spent freely, with the purchase of Jason Shackell a shrewd move.