Sentence examples for canny strategists from inspiring English sources

The leaders of Isis are canny strategists with a solid understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the west.

Mr. Carville and Mr. Stephanopoulos, especially, were stars of "The War Room," a 1993 documentary about the campaign in which they were portrayed as canny strategists.

The speed of life today and our ingrained hyper-reactivity makes so many of us fall prey to small groups of canny strategists bent upon eliciting specific responses conducive to their own narrow ends through buzz words, provocative slogans, and highlighting wedge issues.

He is a canny strategist and master speechmaker.

There's the canny strategist, who petitioned a Pope and challenged a sultan.

Mr. Franks had earned a reputation as a canny strategist in his years in the State Assembly.

Mandela was, Carlin demonstrates, "a canny strategist, a talented manipulator of mass sentiment.

(A canny strategist as well as a passionate one, Mr. Berman knew that I'd written Mr. Owles's obituary).

Adrian Karatnycky, an expert on Ukraine at the Atlantic Council, said that he viewed Mr. Manafort as a canny strategist and businessman.

By the end of his almost 35 years on the Supreme Court, Justice Stevens was not only the leader of its liberal wing, but also its most canny strategist.

Of course, Khan is a canny strategist too: his stress on the negative tactics of Goldsmith will be informed by his own electoral calculations.