Sentence examples for cunning match from inspiring English sources

In this desperately cunning match, it's exciting to simply be a pawn.

From both companies' perspectives, it's a cunning match.

A methodical portrait of the great chief of MCA, a secretive mogul whose vindictiveness and cunning matched his shrewdness and prescience.

Bruck's "fascinating book... is a methodical portrait of an often secretive mogul whose vindictiveness, cunning and temper matched his shrewdness and prescience," Bernard Weinraub wrote here in 2003.

In an audacious caper that matched cunning thieves against apparently complacent security guards, intruders broke into Vienna's art history museum before dawn on Sunday, stealing a 16th-century gold-plated sculpture by the Florentine master Benvenuto Cellini.

Her fascinating book, "When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent Into Power and Influence," is a methodical portrait of an often secretive mogul whose vindictiveness, cunning and temper matched his shrewdness and prescience.

The poem figures them as our shadow-selves, their cunning and species-success matched only by our own.

Oh, and remember: Don't let the pigeon drive the bus!" but the cab driver is no match for the cunning pigeon and soon the unlikely, the absurd and the hilarious is happening as the pigeon, muttering "I thought he'd never leave" takes control – of a sort!

Baldwin's appointment was what Yes, Minister civil servants would call "brave" – an upmarket Coulson to match Andy Coulson's tactical cunning.

If he matches Mr Milosevic's cunning, he might yet turn this crisis into an opportunity to ease Montenegro's internal wounds.

All the rhetorical groundwork the president has now laid — on Iran, Israel-Palestine, the Muslim world — will come to nothing if high principle is not matched by street-smart cunning and maneuver.