| Modern hospital managers will envy the canniness of their counterparts from the 19th century. |
| A combination of canniness and single-minded determination is, he believes, a key to the Hawick psyche. |
| It was the sudden deaths of their husbands that unleashed their tremendous, long-latent ambition and with it the canniness to succeed. |
| Malcolm, with the canniness of his kind, at once told her he had had no luck. |
| It's another sign of Mr Kennedy's canniness that he will not be getting carried away until all the votes are counted. |
| Carson, with the canniness so characteristic of the American, was not to be so easily convinced. |
