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Discover LudwigThe phrase "astute enough for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who possesses the necessary insight or intelligence to handle a particular situation or task.
Example: "She was astute enough for the role, quickly identifying the key issues that needed to be addressed."
Alternatives: "clever enough for" or "shrewd enough for".
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"Olli Rehn needs to behave strategically — and I trust he is astute enough for that — in order to cement the commission's new authority," he said.
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That the nameless publisher might be astute enough to realize that for the first time in his rowdy life he had been made a human being did not worry the loyal ladies.
He is astute enough to know that, for him, the time has come to let that particular activity go.
Just maybe, in the looping chains of broken syllables, the clashing metre of compounded phonemes, he's picking up a message, a weak signal slowly forming in time's static: an announcement, for those astute enough to hear, of a monstrous age of mechanised industry lurking in the night of the future.
"You deserve the high combined return for being astute enough to come in early and being patient while we do our job," he wrote his angels.
"I will never get to the bottom of the Brod mystery," Milan Kundera writes, marveling that Brod was astute enough to preserve Kafka's novels for posterity, yet capable of doing so in such sentimental, vulgar and politically tendentious books.
Ravenhill is astute enough to allow a measure of sympathy for the military officials forced to follow inflexible rules.
In a way, Schumann was theatrically astute enough to realize that as a source for an opera, Goethe's "Faust" was too impossibly sprawling and philosophical.
The listings for Classic San Francisco are astute enough to include Audium, the sound experience designed by the composer Stan Shaff in Pacific Heights.
The issue will dominate politics at least through the first half of 2015.With luck, a national government that has beenclever enough to nudge the economy towards the right path will be astute enough to open negotiations on a devolution deal for Catalonia.
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