Sentence examples for shrewd canny from inspiring English sources
"What we have heard in the last two days is a very shrewd, canny political offensive.
But already in the 1970s Gates had more than once reduced Allen's share in the business, as the Journal also reports, and at any rate, anyone who builds great empires is shrewd, canny, acquisitive and at times stubbornly unyielding.
Like everybody, I adore the audience-participation section and can see that Mr. Naharin is a canny, shrewd shaper of appealing dance material.
But much of her wealth is undoubtedly the result of shrewd financial advice and canny purchasing over many decades.
But by the fall of 1994, the shrewd Wilson and his canny veteran team, taking advantage of mistakes and riding the anti-illegal immigrant Proposition 187, had reversed that big lead.
A canny political operative and a shrewd, gifted politician, he did things for the right reason: not capital-R right, of course (this is politics), but because they afforded him some political advantage.
Look for a rebound at this canny retailer, led by the shrewd Millard Drexler.
The puzzle is that Livingstone was once such a canny reader of the public mood, a shrewd judge of when he had pushed it too far and when he could push it further than others dared.
Judging from the per sonality that suffuses 'these pages — the enormous energy she devoted to thankless tasks, and the canny influence she exerted on her husband she is a shrewd, able, ex tremely likable woman who contributed more than her share to her family's suc cess.
But the shareholders who wanted Allen's blood back in 2003 have quietly sheathed their knives as they watched the canny Scot deliver better than expected cost savings, make shrewd asset disposals and charm the regulator into a £135m licence fee cut in June.
By turns presenting himself as a solemn academic, a charismatic statesman, and a shrewd politician, Uribe underscored his role as one of Latin America's canniest leaders in a country wracked by violence from drug traffickers and insurgent forces.
