He displayed great acumen in conciliating the Romans and Jews.
Keillor remembers himself in high school as "a pale, awkward lad of no great acumen" whose nickname was "Foxfart or Doc or Spaz".
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, he was hired by a midsize European company, where he was said to have shown great acumen but to have quickly grown bored with the jobs he was assigned.
Coming in the wake of Mr. Mbeki's ouster in September after a power struggle in his party, the African National Congress, the report has reignited questions about why Mr. Mbeki, a man of great acumen, was so influenced by AIDS denialists.
Contrary to a stereotypical view of Vietnamese brides as "backward," "financial burdens," and "ignorant" of state policies, they show great acumen in taking advantage of the in-between spaces they live in and "negotiating a wide variety of linguistic and cultural circumstances" (Taylor 2007 268).
Excellent route runner who was overshadowed by teammate Marquise Lee, but has great hands and great football acumen.
Mr. Bell echoed Mr. Broad's view that the nonprofit museum world is a vastly more complicated place than it once was and that museum leaders must have much greater financial acumen.
With greater psychological acumen than any of numerous earlier biographers, Fraser traces the queen's central traits of character -- her intense need for affection, intimacy and approval -- to her tortured relationship with an awesomely powerful mother.
The higher proportion of pneumonia in the disease-endemic area, which cannot fully be explained by greater diagnostic acumen among clinicians more familiar with the disease, could also indicate some kind of environmental contamination in areas where tularemia has long been established.
It does not require great military acumen to see that India is at war with itself.
