Sentence examples for by shrewd from inspiring English sources

By shrewd tactics Timoleon defeated his enemies and occupied Syracuse.

All that glamour is backed by shrewd management.

"It is... a mechanism whereby illicit activities could be disguised by shrewd operators.

With seniority and by shrewd deal making, he gets his committee chairmanship.

The Reagan revolution, he says, was marked by shrewd management of the media, but it succeeded on its merits.

Her fortune amounted to $16.3 million, much of it produced by shrewd investments in the stock market, according to HeraldScotland.com.

At the moment, Congress seems intent on reducing the State Department's budget to the level of that of a third-rate power, leaving the Arab world open to courtship by shrewder players, such as Iran.

The children's book, the latest in the wildly popular series by J. K. Rowling, is already a publishing phenomenon, fueled by a shrewd marketing campaign by Scholastic.

Kindness is often condemned by the shrewd, but isn't shrewdness the opposite of wisdom?

According to Approaching The Possible by Jo Storm, the season 2 episode "1969" showed that Hammond climbed the military ladder "by being shrewd, intelligent, and [by being] possessed of a long vision" despite being a "spouted bottom-line pragmatis[t]".

In his conjectures, Kennan is guided both by a shrewd sense of character and by an impressive knowledge of the folkways of his New England ancestors.