Sentence examples for shrewd judgment from inspiring English sources
His shrewd judgment and quiet competence... mattered less than his party's repellent reputation.
As an example of Hideyoshi's shrewd judgment, he gave the Kantō domain, formerly controlled by the Hōjō family, to Tokugawa Ieyasu, nominally as a reward for distinguished service.
He is a man of discriminating temper and shrewd judgment, formerly the highest of civil servants and adviser to six prime ministers, and still much consulted.
Professionally and socially ambitious, he made his way with shrewd judgment, acquired sophistication and engaging but dissembling charm, the charm of a back patter who is also a backbiter.
The agenda for the talks, which are to begin on Thursday, is overwhelmingly an American one, not because Russia completely agrees with it, but because in Mr. Putin's shrewd judgment, it cannot afford not to.
The alacrity and verve with which Sterling took on City defenders said much for the shrewd judgment of those at the Queens Park Rangers academy who took him on when he was 10.
The American critic Roger Ebert is the world's most famous professional film reviewer: loved for his sane and shrewd judgments, and his passionate devotion to his craft.
Together with the prose, which is fast-paced and full of shrewd judgments, what is most impressive about McDougall's narrative is the range of sources he has used.
His commercial experience stood him in good stead in two shrewd judgments about the takeover panel, which indicates the 1980s deal-making spirit just as industrial turbulence was a sign of the 1970s.
Though a resourceful news reporter and feature writer on five continents, one with an eye for telling detail, shrewd judgments (Alan Clark was "a philanderer obsessed with his own wife") and a vivid turn of phrase, he found his most comfortable niche as a humorous columnist.
Visitors' attention would then be directed straight ahead, to Governors Island, New York's Plymouth Rock, the initial site of European settlement (until Peter Minuit, in one of history's shrewder judgment calls, shifted the operation to Manhattan).
