Sentence examples for as enterprising from inspiring English sources

And no Broadway producers have been as enterprising as the Weisslers in manipulating that currency.

We were as enterprising as we've been and created a lot of chances".

A three-year prison term was suspended, though an aura of shadiness lingered; Malraux wasn't finished dealing in antiquities of dubious provenance or denouncing the injustice of a colonial regime, and throughout his life his opportunism was as enterprising as his conscientiousness.

A great deal will depend on who is chosen to staff the new State Department of Financial Regulation, but it will give Governor Cuomo a piece of the action in a field otherwise likely to be dominated by the new Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, a man who is as ambitious and as enterprising as his two immediate predecessors, the Governors Spitzer and Cuomo.

But many are just as enterprising.

I meant it as enterprising.

I have to say that the CBI audience did not look quite as alert and enterprising as they might have done.

UNSTOPPABLE Denzel Washington, as a veteran train engineer, and Chris Pine, as an enterprising young conductor, do their darnedest to stop a runaway engine nicknamed the Beast as it plows toward a city with a cargo of toxic waste.

However, the women in Wadjda – and the titular hero especially – are not depicted as wholly passive victims, but rather come across as striving, enterprising and possessing some agency within the constraints imposed upon them.

Inevitably, though, she's distracted from the humans by the island's more exotic species: iridescent bees as big as gumballs and enterprising bats who construct tents out of heliconia leaves.

They are depicted as heroic, enterprising folk taming a savage land.