Sentence examples for shrewd capture from inspiring English sources

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That triggered a collapse from 160 for four as the former Surrey veteran Ali Brown showed a less obvious reason why he could prove a shrewd capture, collecting three sharp slip catches including one that gave the strapping 20-year-old debutant Luke Fletcher his first championship wicket.

Fulham also recruited from Germany in January, and Pavel Pogrebnyak has also proved to be a shrewd capture.

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It captures the shrewd simplicity of people who hate the foreign occupier yet try to ingratiate themselves since the immediate cause is not to fight a patriotic war but to survive as best they can.

Despite his enduring celebrity, Stravinsky's protean output and ceaseless, shrewd self-reinventions can be difficult to capture.

But although the former governor and self-described "hockey mom" from Alaska captured the headlines, she was shrewd enough not to claim leadership of a movement that is suspicious of leaders.

To get the balance right in Europe you need shrewd foreign signings and Dai Young at Wasps has probably captured the best of the summer in George Smith and Charlie Piatau.

Lieutenant Colonel T. E. Lawrence later lampooned this as a "triumphal entry" but it was actually a shrewd political stroke, freeing Chauvel's forces to advance another 300 km to Aleppo, which was captured on 25 October.

If Mark Thompson's shrewd stage design doesn't quite follow Williams's symbolic directions, it is eloquent in its ability to capture the deeper implications of Serafina's hysteria.

Charlie was shrewd.

But Pleble was shrewd.

That's shrewd politics.

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