Sentence examples for politically canny from inspiring English sources

Many politicians in the capital are wondering what the politically canny Mr. Vajpayee is up to.

Wildly competent, personally engaging, politically canny, Mr. Schumer was a force with unlimited potential.

Cameron would have to prove he was being politically canny, inviting Lib Dems into areas that are most likely to explode.

It's not difficult to see why this might be a politically canny move – England's 9 million renters are looking more and more like typical swing voters, who politicians of all parties are desperate to court.

If New York is going to get the help it needs, its leaders are going to have to be both restrained and politically canny in what they ask for.

Credit for the politically canny raid on the windfall profits of oil companies belongs to his Lib Dem deputy, Danny Alexander, who first suggested this idea during internal discussions at the Treasury at the beginning of the year.

Gerald McEntee, the head of AFSCME, has a reputation as one of the politically canniest union leaders.

Perhaps his greatest strength is that although he is politically very canny, he is not a professional pol.

Perhaps his greatest strength is that though he is politically very canny he is not a professional pol.

This approach is also rather canny, politically speaking.

Nelson's version was a hit, both because of good timing (his release followed upon the heels of the movie "Brokeback Mountain") and because of goodwill (it was perceived as a canny, politically correct updating of Nelson's outlaw image).