Sentence examples for shrewd ground from inspiring English sources

He was quickly rejected, on the shrewd ground that he was not Party material (too garrulous, too patriotic).

Then social conservatives won ground with a shrewd strategic decision to focus the abortion debate where they had the edge.

"Despite some shrewd diplomatic moves, the reality on the ground is bitter, muddled," Sam Bahour, a prominent business consultant in Ramallah, told me.

Without input from shrewd investors who keep their ears to the ground, a company risks rapid obsolescence.

For the satire, think of the anti-clerical comedies of Anatole France; Ms. Mantel, whose best work may be a shrewd and expansive novel about Danton, has a grounding in French letters.

Shrewd as it was for him to go to ground, it could not prevent the noes from warning that "President Clegg" would be kept forever in power by everybody's second preferences.

After pinch-hitter Justice walked, Torre was shrewd enough to have the runners moving as Knoblauch grounded out on a 3-2 pitch.

England were shrewd enough to target the small straight boundaries created by the ground being remodelled.

It is not the most grounded of the species that survive, nor the most shrewd, however one most receptive to change.

He was comfortably held by Boston Bob on his only subsequent start, but it looks significant that his shrewd connections are prepared to have another crack at the favourite on this ground.

Watching Jeremy Guscott purring across the ground in 1997, as well as 1989, who could argue with our shrewd Scottish judge, Finlay Calder, who nominated the gifted England centre as the first name on his team-sheet?