Nonetheless, the loss of Justice Stevens's personal charm, canny tactics and institutional memory can only leave the court's more liberal wing in a weakened position.
President Coin is the anchor of the film, with her bold and canny tactics (she repudiates Plutarch's advice, telling him, "You're out of your depth" in a matter of war) and her quiet address of Katniss as "soldier".
While Comiskey is often described as experienced and canny, others considered his style and tactics to be ruthless.
Tragically, predators are very canny at sneak attacks and sneaky tactics like spiking punch.
Of course, Khan is a canny strategist too: his stress on the negative tactics of Goldsmith will be informed by his own electoral calculations.
While Hutchinson's legal ruses are canny or "sharp," her detractors' use of the same tactics is presented as hypocritical or bullying.
He was a fabulist and shameless manipulator of the truth as well as a canny self-publicist, the sort of self-conscious user of shock tactics we might associate with a modern generation of artists.
Blatter himself is a canny autocrat who has maintained and expanded his power with Boss Tweed-style tactics, as alleged in "Foul!," a new book by the British investigative journalist Andrew Jennings.
Seven months after the Marines began flowing forces into Helmand Province, clearing territory and trying to establish local Afghan government, such tactics have helped the Taliban transform themselves from the primary provincial power to a canny but mostly unseen force.
