Sentence examples for on the shrewd from inspiring English sources
He was quickly rejected, on the shrewd ground that he was not Party material (too garrulous, too patriotic).
It's a shift that hasn't been lost on the shrewd Mr. Cowell himself, who has made a fortune gauging the masses' ever-changing moods.
He quotes John Kenneth Galbraith, who said that the plan was based "on the shrewd notion that people who are insecure, hungry and without hope are not ardent defenders of liberal institutions or discriminating in the political systems they embrace".
Escaping southward into Araucanian Indian country soon after Valdivia began conquering it in 1550, Lautaro joined the Araucanians, unified their tribal organization, and with their chief, Caupolicán, led them in battle, further improving on the shrewd tactics and stratagems by which they had often defeated the Spaniards.
The life of St. Teresa of vila (1515-82) has been amply related over the years, with accounts ranging from the besotted to the bowdlerized, but this biography focuses on the shrewd businesswoman who managed to leave behind 17 reformed Carmelite convents despite daunting odds.
It was not long ago that Mr. Falcone, who rose from rural Minnesota to the Harvard hockey team, was seen as one of the shrewdest investors on Wall Street.
Characters, however, like the homicidal grifter in "A House on the Plains," and the shrewd cult member in "Walter John Harmon," and the disenchanted F.B.I. agent in "Child, Dead," have assimilated the malevolent power of the forces ranged against them even as they distance themselves from those same forces.
That, apparently, means cultivating players who are comfortable on the ball, shrewd in the mind and able to rise to any challenge.
The deal, which is being done with shares rather than cash, is another notch on the belt of Charles Dunstone, the shrewd entrepreneur who founded Carphone in 1989.
Perhaps, in retrospect, it was not so startling for a woman director to have made it, and to have provided the shrewd perspective on this maleness.
But slave uprisings inGuadeloupe and Martinique and the first stirrings of revolution inFrance and on Saint Domingue itself had alerted the shrewd négociantto potential disaster.
