Edward displayed shrewdness and ruthlessness in the way he turned on nobles who had usurped his power during his minority. |
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Offering critics a helping hand by planting for their use a ready-made descriptive vocabulary reflects his shrewdness of strategy. |
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He looked me in the eye with what he obviously believed to be a look that blended shrewdness and menace. |
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Such shrewdness is based on a full knowledge and estimation of any situation. |
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I'd still be tempted to run if we encountered a number of huge hairy apes, but it's nice to know that we're escaping from a shrewdness of apes. |
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Certainly he surprised observers by the scope of the shrewdness and intelligence which he brought to bear on his self-justifications. |
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Prussia had improved its standing in Germany not only by its economic miracle but also by its diplomatic shrewdness. |
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Henry VII's councillors were all selected for their ability, assiduity, shrewdness, and loyalty. |
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She sees him as idiosyncratic, traditionalist, and with a gift for combining political shrewdness with a sense of self-promotion and opportunism. |
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He came to dominate it by shrewdness, audacity and the huge force and charm of his personality. |
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They had better songs but more importantly they covered a broader age range, exhibiting a shrewdness lost on later generations of Svengalis. |
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His is a tale of jealousy, envy and treachery, but also of motherly love, shrewdness and adventure. |
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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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In China's lunar calendar, 2008 marks the Year of Rat, an animal which symbolises shrewdness and success. |
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The shrewdness and sharpness of his proverbs and his forceful epigrams serve, in an exceptional degree, to make ethical ideas a popular possession. |
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Some delicious shrewdness won't escape to careful observer: bedside lamp tiffany and delicious pedestal tables. |
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In the past Rangers have invested their finances with the shrewdness of a gambler on tilt. |
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He possessed charm that brought him loyalty and political shrewdness that made him enemies, and on occasion a ready wit. |
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Yes, they rolled their eyes, yet they also saw her shrewdness and her warm heart. |
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He also has a capacity, which some say is a mark of shrewdness, for keeping his head down when there is trouble. |
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Scrap the mixing of autocracy, however, and govern with shrewdness and corporatism! |
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They will complement them on their shrewdness in their politics and in their political views. |
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Nonetheless to do so is attempted with amazing shrewdness by the same papal Rome that outlaws marriage for her priests. |
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We know that future investment certainty is important, as is stability and shrewdness in public policy. |
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This is not shrewdness, but suspicion, and it is often rooted in a spirit of pride. |
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They report with shrewdness, humour, and candour the incidents that made up the private and public lives of the Dufferins in Canada. |
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What he lacked in money and sporting prowess, he made up in shrewdness. |
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While his shrewdness commands respect, it also inspires fear. |
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The new series must chart the story of how Caesar grows from faithful pet-cum-laboratory subject of a San Francisco scientist to become the leader of the shrewdness of apes. |
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While the fight may not be as visually arresting as, say, a shrewdness of apes stampeding across San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, it will certainly do. |
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If a shrewdness of apes is so clever, why do they live where they do? |
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His tenacity, patience, humanity, shrewdness in personal dealings, and unblinking focus on essentials more than offset his inefficient, unbusinesslike ways. |
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The Chronicle glorifies the military prowess and shrewdness of Oleg, an account imbued with legendary detail. |
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But schooling and native shrewdness had raised up in the younger men an unfaith in old usages, so judgment halted between sentence and execution. |
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The shrewdness of his social and spatial analyses, his meticulous use of materials and his sculptural formal idiom are still relevant to contemporary architectural debate. |
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In different situations, the FMA gave proof of bravery, shrewdness, flexibility, unconditional adhesion to the educational mission and abandonment to God. |
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These vices involve a defect in understanding, foresight, and shrewdness. |
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However, were ability and shrewdness vital to discover the strong and robust pinewood, which grew everywhere, even next to the river, as if it were bathing its feet in the water? |
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In the past six months, I have greatly appreciated your outstanding professionalism, shrewdness and what I would call the Tacitus-like concision of your statements before the Council. |
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A certain woodenness, a type of awkward charm, the need for dissociation coupled with the desire to take a look over the fence, a cryptic sense of humour and shrewdness. |
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She is consistently authoritative and shows the kind of shrewdness, calm, and lack of fuss that distinguishes experienced senior women in the workplace. |
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His colleagues will be hoping that the chancellor knows what he's doing – and that their own assessment of his shrewdness does not need to be revised. |
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But, above all, there were a number of us delighted by the sallies of one of the last 'womenloving men of easy virtue' of the century, courted for his shrewdness, his jokes and his address book. |
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Refinement, shrewdness, courage, fear and emotions aplenty. |
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The dragon represents power, wisdom and shrewdness. |
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When he learns of Yahweh's intentions, Abraham pleads the cause of the town, using all the arguments and shrewdness he can muster, with all the verve of a nomadic merchant of the day. |
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That crisis ended in 1784 as a result of the King's shrewdness in outwitting Fox and renewed confidence in the system engendered by the leadership of Pitt. |
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For Cooper was unendowed with worldly shrewdness, and, like all dreamers, was attracted by a mind which controlled while he might only attempt to understand. |
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