Sentence examples for shrewd negotiation from inspiring English sources
Additionally, his shrewd negotiation of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase had bloodlessly doubled the size of the United States and cleared the way for Western expansion while simultaneously reducing French presence in the New World.
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Guggenheim director Thomas Krens, and the plans for a new Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum in lower Manhattan... Writer describes the proposed titantium-clad museum, which is similar to Gehry's design for the Bilbao Guggenheim... Krens commissioned the Bilbao and made [it] possible through shrewd negotiations with local politicians.
Thanks to shrewd negotiations by his widow, Audrey Geisel, Dr. Seuss' estate reportedly got 5% of the film's gross profits, 50% of its merchandising and soundtrack revenue and 70% of the income from movie-related book sales.
Gamesmanship and subterfuge are stalwarts of a rivalry that precedes Ryan, dating to Bill Parcells; to Belichick's abrupt resignation as "HC of the NYJ"; to the Jets' stealthy negotiations — and shrewd offer sheet — that netted Curtis Martin; to the Patriots' clandestine filming of Jets defensive signals in 2007, which became the controversy known as Spygate.
Mr. Obuchi, Japan's 23rd prime minister since World War II, was by all accounts a shrewd tactician, skilled in the back-room negotiations and consensus-building that are the hallmark of Japanese politics.
Hopefully, they were more shrewd than the lawyers representing Leibovitz in her negotiations with Art Capital that stand to possibly put Goldman Sachs back in the saddle again, too.
"We have an incredibly tough, shrewd, determined and principled person to lead those (Brexit) negotiations for Britain," Hunt told Sky News television.
These same shrewd political instincts drove him to embrace the notion of negotiations with Washington, a proposition fundamentally at odds with the clerics' official ideology of anti-Americanism.
With the Arab League literally forcing Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to agree to direct negotiations with Israel, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu must be thinking he's one shrewd fox.
