Sentence examples for shrewd leader from inspiring English sources

Nasrallah is an extraordinarily shrewd leader.

After two terms as governor, Reagan had matured into what Buckley considered a nearly ideal conservative politician: a shrewd leader as well as a man of principle.

As it is, one of UKIP's new European Parliament seats is in Scotland.Though ostensibly a unionist, Nigel Farage, UKIP's shrewd leader, used the referendum chiefly to deride Labour and the Tories for their poor management of the cross-party campaign.

Edward Horn Baldwin, N.Y., June 15 , 2009• To the Editor: Re "A Shrewd Leader Emerges With a Stronger Hand" (news analysis, front page, June 15): The powerful Iranian "elite" referred to in this report is aging fast.

Sergei Bagapsh, who has died aged 62 after undergoing lung surgery, was a shrewd leader of Abkhazia, the tiny sliver of shore and mountains on the Black Sea coast that effectively seceded from Georgia in 1993 after a short war.

Any other U.S. president would have recognized Xi's move to make himself president for life as the totalitarian threat it is; Trump sees it as the deft gamesmanship of a shrewd leader.

A shrewd and calculating leader, Teach spurned the use of force, relying instead on his fearsome image to elicit the response he desired from those he robbed.

All this suggests that Kim Jong Il may be a shrewder leader than many people realize.

She was a shrewd political leader with a wide base in the Sinhalese majority.

The Conservative plan, cooked up by Lord Strathclyde, a shrewd former leader of the House of Lords, would give the Scottish government full control over income tax.

The experimental frame of mind encompasses the scientist in her lab, the inventor in his workshop and even (with some literary license) the reflective bohemian, the calculating entrepreneur and the shrewd democratic leader.