Shrewd and wary was Leofric, careful and measured in all things, nothing beyond him. |
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Shrewd design practices can take the sting out of your customers' fender benders. |
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Rumours persist of internal party worries that, despite shrewd anti-war positioning, his lack of dynamism is a problem. |
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Miller's round body and comeback saga make him a fan favorite, but he's neither quick nor shrewd enough to play quality defense. |
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The great Democratic presidents were not merely shrewd enough to balance their domestic programmes with a proficiency at fighting wars. |
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Two shrewd commentators of the late 1940s had already divined that at least some Rorschach wizards achieved their success by resorting to tricks. |
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Pitt made his way to power more by shrewd political judgement and sheer luck than by public acclaim. |
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Farmers were renowned in this country for being shrewd, hard-headed business man and they had not lost any of this shrewdness. |
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Sheringham left Old Trafford in the summer and the evidence now suggests it was a shrewd move. |
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Given how opinionated and dissolute they are, you'd expect sports journalists to be shrewd gamblers. |
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She was from an upper-class background and although she was a shrewd political player, Mrs. Randolph was also a Southern lady to her bones. |
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His shrewd assessment of political reality was wedded to a belief in the necessity of moral idealism in human affairs. |
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A petite woman dressed in pearls and a well-tailored suit, she comes across as shrewd and hardheaded but not unsympathetic to her subjects. |
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He plays a shrewd businessman who buys struggling companies, then breaks them up and sells the pieces. |
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Being a shrewd political operator, the deputy will be anxious not to be seen to be involved publicly in the co-option. |
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However, one gets the feeling that the Prime Minister relishes the challenge of meeting shrewd operators like Richard and Judy. |
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The poems acknowledge semi-articulate intimacies, their interrupted cadence, a shrewd tenderness, a tang. |
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So our military has to be very shrewd, very calculating and I think that they are laying out those plans. |
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She differed from all the other models I had met in that she didn't take drugs and possessed a talent for shrewd observation. |
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He is courteous, good-humoured, shrewd, canny and from a humble background in Edinburgh. |
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A shrewd, hard-headed businessman typical of his age, he speedily restored abbey finances after years of mismanagement. |
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Justin's shrewd judgement and his ability to make the necessary changes when needed contributed to this famous victory over the rebels. |
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They include home-grown professionals who have benefited from inheritances and shrewd property investment. |
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Don't bet against it as this Donegal team have the basis upon which a shrewd operator like Brian can build. |
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Is it also a rather shrewd and pertinent analysis by one of Britain's most eminent leaders? |
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A business graduate, he began to earn a name for himself as a shrewd and energetic operator at NCB stockbrokers. |
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Though professionally chummy she is personally steely, a shrewd operator with no qualms about tough questions and drawing blood. |
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Mrs. Drollmere had been a lively woman with a shrewd and witty sense of humour. |
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And this, the tenth top-flight encounter between the two local sides, is set to be an interesting tactical battle with both men shrewd operators. |
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He remarked that should some shrewd Yankee set up a grog shop near Mr. Smith's house, he would make his fortune. |
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So he's a shrewd political operator, and he's been around, as you say, since the days of the revolution. |
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But as we all know from experience, the inarticulate can be shrewd, the fluent fatuous. |
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But while the Jackass guys may play knuckleheads on TV, they actually appear to be quite shrewd. |
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These guards were surely worldly-wise and shrewd, but they were clearly not educated to the same degree as the scribes and Pharisees. |
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A gentle aesthete and a shambolic dilettante, he was extraordinarily widely read, but shrewd and critical as well as omnivorous. |
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One shrewd participant insisted that the solution is leadership not governance. |
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His batting ability is well known, but he has also proved himself an excellent one-day bowler, and has a shrewd tactical brain. |
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From this standpoint, the city's monstrous caricature of futurism is simply shrewd marketing. |
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The two Virginians were shrewd men with an imperviously close bond and an impressive degree of patience and self-control. |
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Before leaving London, he has cast a shrewd eye over Lady Dedlock's private apartments. |
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It shows you just what can be done with hard work, application and being shrewd with your signings. |
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The serpents' wisdom quoted here means shrewd intelligence with perfect knowledge of the position under which one is placed. |
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They developed as rugged individualists who were honest and shrewd, knew no grades of society and had dignity. |
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All of us, that is, have a child-reader within asking shrewd and impertinent questions. |
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This is how the deceivers are deceived, for he who can cozen me is shrewd indeed. |
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A brilliant safecracker plays an elaborate game of cat and mouse with a shrewd police chief. |
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Known to be a talent spotter and a shrewd judge of stories, his very first sitting with Gunasekhar convinced him. |
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Johannes' famous term is actually Kierkegaard's shrewd way of pointing to the irreconcilability of philosophy with biblical narrative. |
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And so the initial corpus of money was expanded many times over, as a result of shrewd investments. |
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Their defeats could be directly attributed to the lack of his fierce aggression and quiet, shrewd leadership. |
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Within scant minutes, DeWolf's shrewd cross-examination had entangled Hood in an exitless maze of contradictions and obvious lies. |
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A lot of it was due to shrewd real estate acquisitions, anticipating property trends and securing key parcels of land for low prices. |
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She is a perfect mountain woman, shrewd and suspicious, quick to laugh or scowl, handy with a butter churn or a folk remedy. |
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By profession a hotelkeeper, the elder Parer on all accounts had the shrewd joviality of his calling. |
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Physically, she brilliantly embodied the shrewd, sharp-eyed, owlish spinster, while also conveying her intuitive acumen and razor-sharp mind. |
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If they did, shrewd, at perhaps not so shrewd, punters would immediately name Newry Town's match as one of their bankers for a score draw. |
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His appointment as coach in July last year, once seen as a desperate throw of the dice, looks an ever more shrewd choice. |
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Taking into account the needs of suppliers is again a combination of shrewd business sense and good ethical practice. |
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But shrewd restaurateurs and bar owners know that the secret weapon lies in the hands of a highly trained waitstaff. |
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In personality they were frugal, abstemious, shrewd, accumulative, and solitary. |
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All of which proves that the financial-services industry is one that requires shrewd and tough regulatory oversight. |
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Slaveowners claimed that their practices, unlike sharp and shrewd Yankee treatment of factory workers, were unprofitable. |
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So it apparently represents what he enjoys, but it may also reflect a very shrewd choice of career path in the future. |
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The sisters have already adopted a shrewd business move to allow children and their parents to learn together at the same time. |
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The case cannot be literally proved, of course, but we have a shrewd idea of what can happen when such regimes are left to choose the initiative. |
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Shumba was a fast fellow though and with a shrewd, sharp glance at Shanza he sat back for a moment. |
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He was a very shrewd, very sharp head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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Whether Gandhi made her move out of shrewd calculation or simple magnanimity, it was a political master stroke. |
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This acts as another check on presidential power and a shrewd president will realise this. |
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Aside from sponsoring motor races, Gordon was shrewd enough to recognise the potential of the infant motor industry. |
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General manager Danny Ferry made a shrewd move in signing the 32-year-old power forward. |
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Up until the final ten minutes this has been an intelligent, witty and unusually shrewd look at the social acceptance of mixed race relationships. |
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Over the past five years, however, because of shrewd marketing by the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the sport's premier brand, mixed martial arts has become mainstream. |
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On the face of it, the politics of canceling the tours seems pretty shrewd. |
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Nor is the stubborn, shrewd prime minsiter known to capitulate easily, or to misread public sentiment. |
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But as an additional twist, he picks up waifish Russian prostitute Anne, whose seeming helplessness belies a shrewd sense of self-preservation at any cost. |
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Moving away from the academic environment was a shrewd move for Stoneham, who has trebled the amount of business she used to do at Oxford University. |
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It's too shrewd by half for you to now say no contracts were signed. |
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Her common sense and kindliness, combined with an inexorable flow of shrewd jokes, make it easy to see why she has become more than just another author. |
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All these things were done very publicly, with a seemingly shrewd eye toward their definitional impact on his public image. |
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The deviating family melodrama has, thankfully, been replaced by shrewd spycraft. |
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Since British Energy, the nuclear-power generator, was restructured and its shares were relisted at the start of the year, it has attracted a shrewd following. |
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He calls Gores Technology a shrewd buyer and an able reorganizer. |
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Thus, through dynastic accident and shrewd marriage, within five years Henry had gained control of unprecedented resources, often referred to as the Angevin Empire. |
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In as far as he allows personal sentiment to show, he indicates a guarded, sceptical, knowledgeable and shrewd affection for both in about equal measure. |
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Following in those shrewd, shirtless footsteps, perhaps one day Jonas will be peed on by Nicole Kidman, too. |
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As someone with a shrewd eye for the absurd, it is entirely possible somewhere Joan Rivers is smiling right now. |
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It stands to reason that nowadays, to do the latter would be shrewd indeed. |
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According to tradition, the typical Yankee peddler was thought to be so shrewd that he could carve and sell counterfeit nutmegs. |
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They listen to their shrewd father, Tywin Lannister, smear their dead son in front of his corpse. |
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He was matchlessly unorthodox, brave, loving, generous, riotously funny, as well as shrewd and unsentimental, in a blend of human chemistry that is indeed irreplaceable. |
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Farther down the billing, Barbara Nichols' ditzy cigarette girl trying to cling to her last scraps of self-respect is a shrewd mix of comedy and pathos. |
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There's also a shrewd belly dance that alludes to both women's lives. |
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There was a great night's entertainment had by all with several shrewd punters making money on the tote and others leaving the premises with quite a hole in their pockets. |
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Businessmen will hire shrewd youngsters, who will help boost business. |
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Talking of money, the reporters were shrewd enough to know that there was an emergency allowance set aside for those deprived of their means of livelihood. |
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On a pitch with lively bounce, he was once again in majestic form, always getting in line and using clever innovation to beat England's shrewd field placings. |
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Kim Dae Jung is both a visionary and a shrewd, hard-nosed politician. |
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News that his wife was pregnant once again came just days before the recent budget, and proves once again what a shrewd political operator he just is. |
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In fact, she's a shrewd operator who has always preferred to get out there and earn a living, even if the roles haven't exactly been Oscar contenders. |
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Allan has proven himself to be a shrewd operator on a tight budget as his firm has attempted to weather the huge downturn in sentiment towards the telecom sector. |
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He's a shrewd operator and will assemble the best squad possible. |
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While he could be a shrewd and tough political operator when it was needed, he will mainly be remembered as a decent trustworthy person with an deep core of human kindness. |
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Fleming was regarded in railroad and banking circles as a shrewd operator. |
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He stood in his felt pantofles and regarded her with shrewd eyes. |
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Whether you knew Andy personally, or just looked forward to his incomparably shrewd dispatches from all over, there's no better way to honor his spirit. |
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What he has proved to be is a shrewd tactician and an astute responder to the public mood whose easy-going manner disguises some ruthless populism. |
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The good news for Kings fans is that Petrie is a shrewd dealmaker. |
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What is not so dopey, however, is the alternative notion that his one-foot-in-front-of-the-other approach is not only strategic, but actually quite shrewd. |
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The best politics here is to be principled, nimble, and shrewd. |
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Alarcon is too shrewd politically to touch that, but his ambition has already spoken. |
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For all its shrewd observations and well-turned phrases, however, First Family is highly derivative of so many of Ellis's other writings. |
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He was certainly shrewd to have wangled himself a PS145,000-plus salary and peppercornrented Essex housing association gin palace. |
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A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others, if they be not thoroughpaced speculators in those great theories. |
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Her shrewd business sense is one reason that so many of her works survive today. |
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Had he been shrewd he would have upped sticks in the early part of 2002 and taken himself and all his money to the Continent. |
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The court of Charles VII was shrewd and skeptical on the subject of mental health. |
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Walter Novellino has made a string of shrewd signings, including Brescia goal machine Dario Hubner, and they look solid. |
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His gestures are flamboyant, his face shrewd and pouchy but still quite youthful, beneath a mop of gold-and-silver hair. |
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Papagay clearly draws in her pronouncements on shrewd psychological observations of the participants. |
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Absentee owner due to shrewd systemization run with only a handful of key employees. |
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Claire Young is energetic and shrewd, but her motormouth would have Sir Alan reaching for the smelling salts on her first day of employment. |
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But Rembrandt was very shrewd, Eric tells me, and would use the much cheaper cobalt pigment, smalt, as an economical substitute. |
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At least until some shrewd Fox News exec gives them their own show. |
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It ill became him to take advantage of such a laches with the eagerness of a shrewd attorney. |
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At that dramatic moment in American history, the shrewd Kansan stalked like a big game hunter. |
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But in a race with many chances keep an eye on several others including Chantress, Tug Of Love and most of all East Tycoon on his first run for the shrewd Jonjo O'Neill yard. |
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A shrewd and calculating leader, Teach spurned the use of force, relying instead on his fearsome image to elicit the response he desired from those he robbed. |
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Agar made some shrewd signings, but with 20 new faces at the club it looked to be too difficult for them to be in contention for a play-off berth. |
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Hoch the Choke didn't earn that monicker for nothing, which is why shrewd punters these days back him on markets where his bottle is not the deciding factor. |
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But inside the city, a shrewd administration had prepared for the siege and a new emperor, Leo the Isaurian, a capable and efficient military leader, was prepared to resist. |
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Brownism remained as yet untested and, thanks to Brown's shrewd political positioning, there was undoubtedly support in Renewal and among the wider left for a Brownish regime. |
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Interestingly, Edward was also a shrewd and successful businessman and merchant, heavily investing in several corporations within the City of London. |
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Economist Peter Leeson believes that pirates were generally shrewd businessmen, far removed from the modern, romanticised view of them as murderous tyrants. |
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The contributions to Connecticut's general fund are the winnings from a deal struck 20 years ago by a shrewd governor of the state once known as the Land of Steady Habits. |
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In another shrewd move, Bacon wrote his Apologies in defence of his proceedings in the case of Essex, as Essex had favoured James to succeed to the throne. |
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His active career meant that he was considerably experienced in combat, and was a shrewd judge of his opponents, able to identify and exploit his enemies' weaknesses. |
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