| No one had the nous or the nerve to shout up earlier, before crisis point was reached. |
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| A kicking beat, guitars deftly playing off each other, and a bass line that was pure nous. |
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| He's got a bit of nous, craft and guile and he can get hold of the ball and retain it. |
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| Tonight, even a muddy sound system and faulty backing tapes cannot detract from the brilliant pop nous beating at the band's core. |
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| Fishermen rely on their nous and their knowledge, two things that will be useless in a time of change. |
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| Whatever way you set out your side, however, Celtic have the options, power and nous to undo any game plan. |
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| Her political nous and plain-speaking made her an instant hit on the political circuit, particularly with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. |
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| I'm on borrowed time in the game, but I'm probably getting by on a bit of nous, a bit of guile, and a bit of competitive instinct. |
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| They maximise their strengths with a combination of superb execution, footballing nous and street wisdom. |
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| However, it was the power of nous, or mind, that not only created the world but also was the driving force in its day to day processes. |
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| Sorcery is a tiny facet of magic, whose final goal is the realisation of nous and the unification of heaven and earth. |
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| Students will take elements of the university's MBA programme because as well as having the technological skills, companies prefer someone who also has business nous. |
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| What's more, South Africa, who have not been known for their tactical know-how in recent years, are showing a lot more nous under White's leadership. |
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| Iceland is one of the world's top fly-fishing destinations, and fly-fishing in Iceland is famously a test of skill, nous, patience and determination. |
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| Indeed his new team-mates credited his nous as a key factor in their surprising but enterprising victory at Newport in the Celtic League kick-off a week earlier. |
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| Admirers say the president's political nous is complemented by his minister's brain. Mr Videgaray's reclusiveness had costs. |
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| McAllister's performances caught the eye of Liverpool manager Houllier, who was searching for an experienced campaigner to add nous and wisdom to his young midfield. |
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| Sure, it's not brain surgery, but surely we all agree there is is a certain amount of skill and nous and business acumen involved in running a restaurant. |
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| Keeping sport free of harmful manifestations of politics is another matter, but few sports have ever had leaders with either the will or the political nous to try. |
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| Having written the piece, Delaney had the nous to send it to Joan Littlewood, who had turned the Theatre Royal, Stratford East into a vibrant home of new drama. |
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| C'est important, car nous ne partirons pas dans l'inconnue au moment de les affronter. |
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| Mais il est a preciser que ces evenements auraient pu nous couter la vie de nos patients. |
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| He gave off an aura not of romance or woolly artisanality but rather of canny commercial nous. |
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| Like with the ambient, and environment, roots that unveil the blow surrounding something, the phrana's incontinenti involvement, pneuma, constituting the most vigorous nous, spacetime free. |
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| Even though Mr Tung, a former businessman, was unswervingly loyal to Beijing, Chinese officials came to regard his lack of political nous and charisma as a threat to stability. |
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| After countless false dawns, Japan may at last have the combination of political circumstance and economic exigency to make reform inevitable and, in Mr Abe, a leader with the nous to bring it about. |
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| For Western rational mystics, conformance with nous took the form of pursuing philosophical knowledge and, in some cases, its technological implementation, as in medicine or alchemy. |
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| He is regarded as the most eminent criminal psychologist in Britain, the real-life 'Cracker-style' profiler with the nous to worm his way into the mind of the Ipswich murderer. |
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| He was more admired for his bravery than strategic military nous. |
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| And he told the Independent the lack of cultural nous and reverence of literary reference points by today's pop and rock vintage was cause for disheartenment. |
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| David has to do things the hard way, and the fact that he consistently outmanoeuvres City speaks volumes for his powers of motivation, team building and tactical nous. |
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| It's the left-hand menu specials that give me hope for the future of Chez Nous. |
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| Nous avons un message a transmettre, meme la pochette, elle est en forme de lettre. |
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| Nous pensons que ce theme du poete asexue ou poete-femme est la prefiguration du theme de l'homosexualite developpe dans Sodome et Gomorrhe. |
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| Nous discutons de la bourgeoisie et comment on devient mendiant dans un pays, voila. |
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