Sentence examples for some acumen from inspiring English sources

The head of the authority is a political appointee, and Mr. Walder showed some acumen in that realm by skirting Monday's more controversial questions.

The platform requires some technical acumen, but for the most part it simplifies some very complex interactions.

When amateurs have some business acumen, she said, they can drive prices up.

Mr. Ross, the Trump executive, said it made good sense for teenagers to develop some business acumen.

"There does seem to be some management acumen and the ability to pull a lot of levers," said Mark Isaac, vice president of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

And American law schools are slowly trying to instil some business acumen into future lawyers, though in Europe and elsewhere law remains distressingly academic.Another much-discussed solution for teaching lawyers to be businesspeople is the creation of all-in-one professional-service firms, combining lawyers, management consultants and accountants.

And demonstrating some marketing acumen, there will be well-publicized XFL cheerleaders.

London is naturally a Labour city, so it took some political acumen to persuade voters to elect a Tory mayor two terms in a row.

She would need some business acumen for such an endeavor, and so after graduating from Harvard, Cooper enrolled in Northwestern's M.B.A. program at night while working full time at First Chicago.

"Our whole plan from the beginning was if we put some business acumen into the business side of the club that we could run it and make it sustainable for years to come.

After this debacle, Giza and Vella sought to get RTI some business acumen with a smooth-talking director by the name of Andrew Flanagan.