Sentence examples for being shrewd about from inspiring English sources

It says that a permanent secretary must "balance ministers' or high-level stakeholders' immediate needs or priorities with the long-term aims of their department, being shrewd about what needs to be sacrificed, at what costs and what the implications might be".

The president was right, just as he was right to credit George W. Bush with being shrewder about immigration than today's Republicans.

Mr. Coccio is shrewd about depicting minute complications.

So artists, like anyone else, need to be shrewd about windfalls.

Mr. Pandit has been shrewd about playing down his interest in the job.

She's shrewd about noting the status and position of black girls at school.

Professor X is shrewd about the reasons it's hard to teach underprepared students how to write.

Though still a girl, and very much under the sway of her father, Ashima is shrewd about her career and oddly self-sufficient where business is concerned.

When he is not taking on trends in modern thought, Professor X is shrewd about the reasons it's hard to teach underprepared students how to write.

But his mood swung back during Genfa's 40-minute presentation as the CEO spoke precisely and clearly about the numbers it was obvious he was shrewd about the market.

(He doesn't mention the celebrities' names; would "Bono" have taken too much space?) Siegel is shrewd about the way the "CSI" franchise "represents the triumph of the money culture".