Sentence examples for shrewd building from inspiring English sources

Moyes was widely recognised by his peers for his fine work in 11 years at Goodison Park, establishing Everton as a permanent top-10 team with his shrewd building work over that lengthy period.

The Red Sox made shrewd decisions building their team, decisions that should make them formidable for a while.

The shrewd businessman still runs the building company that he owned in Liverpool before entering the Big Brother house.

As Farrant prepares himself for death, he notes how "the perfect taste, the shrewd modernity of the great building touched his mood with malice".

A millionaire building contractor and shrewd dealer over the years in some of the world's rarest and most enviable racing cars, Frederick Bernard Wheatcroft – nicknamed Tom by his family from his habit of continually patting his tummy – concealed a razor-sharp business mind behind an affable exterior.

He became a trainer in 1959, building a reputation as a shrewd horseman who'd as soon raid a rival's charges as hand-raise his own.

In 1998 Donald Trump, a magnate, presented a plan to build the world's tallest residential building in New York as the righting of a historical wrong, not a shrewd business move.

Bill Lynch was remembered on Thursday as a shrewd campaign strategist who was more interested in building movements for social justice than in electoral victory.

Lawrence had brought Oppenheimer into a committee of scientists advising the government about building the bomb, and he offered such shrewd advice on one technical question after another that he became indispensable to the project.

El Chapo (born Joaquin Guzman Loera) grew up poor and illiterate but managed to become one of the shrewdest and most feared men in the world by building a smuggling empire based around a series of tunnels underneath the US/Mexico border.

Whether this is out of shrewd bargain-hunting, state arm-twisting or over-ambitious empire-building remains to be seen.The third is that the inflation threat has receded, thanks to the sharp fall in commodity prices.