Sentence examples for has a canny ability from inspiring English sources

Adrià is used to getting his way and has a canny ability to pull in free talent.

Latin American startups have a canny ability to take a proven business model, and execute like crazy to improve on it.

He had a canny ability to recognize the battles that needed fighting and those that didn't, when to take advice and from whom to take it, and when to see himself both as leader and as a team member.

Bates, a junior midfielder, has displayed a canny ability to distribute the ball upfield to his forwards to generate quality scoring opportunities.

The cool Mr Aznar has a canny instinct for what it takes to keep a country on course.

(MacMillan is impressed because this 30-ish fellow has a canny understanding of what toys kids like to play with).

His challenger, Mr Reinfeldt, had relative youth on his side (41 to Mr Persson's 57), an affable demeanour and a canny ability to hear and understand voters' concerns.

Running through all of this is a canny ability to do populism on the cheap.

The lyrics display a canny ability to catch the listener unawares, by suddenly switching from knowing, old-fashioned teen-pop chestnuts to something more adult and potent.

Along with the flashy image, Mr. Wang had a canny side.

And yet, for all their self-deprecating affability, North Dakotans have a canny suspicion of certain types of outsiders.