Sentence examples for was shrewd for from inspiring English sources

"It was shrewd for Deutsche Telekom to expand in the U.S. by buying a minor player in the wireless industry but now it seems that strategy is changing," said Jeffrey Kagan, an independent telecommunications analyst based in Atlanta.

Colette M. Fleming, an analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in New York, said the deal was shrewd for the company, even though by widening its service area it is increasing the proportion of its calling volume that will not generate roaming charges, the fees that callers pay when using their phones outside their own company's territory.

It was shrewd for Edwards to draw a line because he needed a boost, but now the Dems need the voters and they are coming to Fox.

"Too Hot Not to Handle" is shrewd for not insisting at every moment that all these changes are central to human beings' long-term survival.

Coin's acquisition of Standa is shrewd for other reasons, too, he notes.

Darling's help for small businesses, which we don't have enough of, was shrewd and amazingly ungimmicky for a pre-election budget.

He was shrewd not to stay for the football.

However, he was shrewd and observant, noticing, for example, if someone he did not know was concerned to 'get it right'.

News Corp was shrewd in understanding the market for conservative political TV in America: the core audience of Fox News creates a stable cashflow.

Yet when she paused to fix her gaze on people, her piercing glances revealed that this shrew was shrewd and had no use for foolishness or pretension.

Andrew Davies, who adapted the novel for television, was shrewd enough to regard his function as one of artistic midwifery — to get the thing out of the page and onto the screen in as undamaged a state as possible.