Sentence examples for wits of from inspiring English sources

It was only the sharp wits of Seevakumaran's room-mate that spared the US another massacre.

THE global financial crisis has spared few industries, not least those that live by the wits of their risk managers and survive at the whim of capital markets.

Investment (or merchant) banks had traditionally been slim businesses, living off the wits of their employees and their ability to earn fees from advice.

Instead of eliminating conflicts of interest, Goldman hopes to rely on greater disclosure and the wits of its people to defuse them.

Let us take one of the greatest, if not the greatest, wits of all time – I'm not being ironic now – Groucho Marx.

The subheading of your April 10 article "The Wits of Throgs Neck" states, "It's not the Algonquin, but then Dorothy Parker probably didn't know much about the Bronx".

(One of his biographers has observed that Henry was fortunate that "the wits of Virginia" weren't quick enough to invent the word "henrymandering").

There had to be admiration for the sharp wits of Gary Kelly as well as the skill with which he hoisted the ball just inside Berthelin's left post.

The priest remains in his bed for one last night thanks only to the quick wits of his right-hand man, the lawyer Thomas Cromwell.

As cycling becomes more popular across the UK, it is not good enough to rely on the quick wits of experienced cyclists as our only safety measure.

In the 1930's, Dorothy Parker and her fellow wits of the Algonquin Round Table squared off at weekend estates on Long Island.