Sentence examples for be astute at from inspiring English sources

So far Mr. Putin has shown himself to be astute at garnering the support of the Russian people by encouraging the military in Chechnya and by pledging to reinvigorate the central powers of authority, officials said.

The family has been astute at handling its wealth.

Wales are astute at the breakdown, the area where a game tends to be decided.

He credited her success in part to being astute at selecting drugs that might treat a specific cancer.

Second, he is astute at assessing how much of a problem can be tackled: it may not be the entire issue; and all parties have to give something.

Director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr and Mrs Smith) is astute at judging when the conceit is wearing thin, and when to open up surprising new pockets of action in the timeline.

Estepa is astute at leaving us wanting more with a strong closing track – in particular with Ball and Chain from his 2011 album Vessels – and he pulls it off again here with Twice Around.

His counterpart at Sohu, Charles Zhang, a physics major from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, predicts: "If we look back after 100 years at today, we may find this period similar to the Renaissance in Europe or the Meiji Restoration in Japan".China's leaders have been astute at harnessing such boundless optimism.

All of these search engines have a long way to go before they become a shortcut way for developers to find code – especially considering that most developers are astute at using ordinary search engines to find what they are looking for.

He might have accomplished this because he was astute at reading the tea leaves.

But Geithner has been astute at blocking access to the president for others who have different views, and Obama has been startlingly incurious and compliant.