Sentence examples for shrewd bet from inspiring English sources
The trades had simply been a shrewd bet, Mr. McLagan said.
WHEN the second world war broke out, Sir John Templeton, one of the founding fathers of Franklin Templeton, a big asset manager, made a shrewd bet.
A spokesman said Mr. Lazio, who was in his third term at the time, bought shares in the company earlier and had simply made a shrewd bet.
Even Gimelstob, now a board member of the Association of Tennis Professionals and a commentator on the Tennis Channel, has to acknowledge that Roddick may have made a shrewd bet.
But then it will resume in the autumn, when the shrewd betting has to be that Arsenal will be that much more experienced - and handily placed.
These could, in theory, be used to show what makes some players better than others, and what defines their skill (Bluffing? Shrewd betting based on the rapid calculation of odds? Or both?).
Sir Clement was a keen gambler, and he placed a shrewd £1,000 bet on himself, at odds of 33 to 1, to win an uphill battle for the Liberals against the Conservatives in 1973 for the mostly rural Isle of Ely constituency, 70 miles northeast of London.
It's a bet the shrewd investor wouldn't make.
That midfield backs, front-row forwards and back-three players, probably in that order, born between around 1965 and 1975 are the shrewdest current recruitment bets for provincial sides in this part of the world?
