Sentence examples for be a canny operator from inspiring English sources
Mr Rohani is acknowledged to be a canny operator with strong public support, but he faces powerful opposition in the form of revolutionary ideologues and militarists.
It was Deng who in 1992 designated Mr Hu as Mr Jiang's successor.No one suggests that Mr Jiang has anything approaching the charisma or authority of Deng, but he has proved to be a canny operator, and the upper ranks of the party and military are now populated with men who owe their careers to him (alongside those who owe their careers to Mr Hu).
But Zecha is a canny operator.
Even the Observer's food critic, Jay Rayner, concedes that Greggs is a canny operator.
Maybe that's just because he's a canny operator who knows when he's being filmed.
Agar is a canny operator, Paul McShane is a good-value replacement for Aiton, but it's a worry when overseas signings are still waiting for visas.
It's also counterproductive: the closer she gets to herniating herself trying to convince you that you're listening to a crazy avant-garde artist making pop music by accident, the more convinced you become that she's a canny operator writing pop songs and then dressing them up in a multicoloured afro wig and glasses with eyeballs on springs.
On the other hand, lying low, keeping way under Hoover's radar, escaping to London and Portugal and only trapped in the end at Heathrow because he's run out of alternative passports and money, he's a canny operator, the smartest son of a dirt-poor, utterly dysfunctional Missouri family.
Starr, who tellingly had the title of executive director, has been a canny operator on the behalf of the NT getting the best deals for a string of hits that continue to replenish the NT coffers at a time of squeezed funding, but he was never just a money man.
He is a canny operator and should be suited to conditions because he bowls slower than your average spinner.
Theological disputes at the Hampton Court Conference are a dramatic highlight – presided over by James Garnon's James, a pint-sized bisexual Scot of nervous tics and crude manners who is also a canny operator.
