Sentence examples for shrewd purchase from inspiring English sources

It now looks a shrewd purchase.

It was a shrewd purchase, to say the least.

Most of his £3bn is based on his shrewd purchase of BHS in 2000.

Martínez's decision to sign Gómez from Espanyol in 2008, when manager of Swansea City, has proved a shrewd purchase.

Making such a shrewd purchase this spring will surely ease your pain next spring, when even better digicams poke their leafy green tendrils up through the damp ground.

For Facebook it was an important land grab in the shift to mobile, an area where it had struggled and a shrewd purchase of a service that could have rivalled its own product.

He has made some shrewd purchases, like the Marc Newson Sci-Fi vase he bought in a sale at B&B Italia for £80.

The beginning of Moscow's rise to its later preeminence came during the reign of Daniel's son Ivan (1328 41), who, by cooperating with Öz Beg, khan of the Golden Horde, and also by his shrewd purchases (probably of tax-farming rights), greatly expanded the influence of his principality.

Mr. Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, gained a wide following for shrewd purchases of stocks over the last three decades, but the annual report showed that the company had sold more shares than it had bought for the second consecutive year in 1997.

A small-time candy distributor in Kennett Square, Pa., he graduated to running a big-time Ponzi scheme in which investors were expecting foolproof returns said to be based on Burry's shrewd purchases of overstocked supplies from Hershey and others.

The Economist "moneyballs" the English Premier LeagueIN THIS week's print edition we discuss how teams in the English Premier League (EPL) are using "big data" to devise sharper tactics and make shrewder purchases.