The things which marked him out were his engaging personality, his clubbability, his sharp intellect, and his critical acumen. |
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But generally I prefer policies that demonstrate a scintilla of common sense and financial acumen. |
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The newspapers were full of articles breathlessly praising the entrepreneurial acumen of Britain's new high-tech millionaires. |
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This elegant chief executive has the business acumen of the Americans and the undeniable style of the Italians in her origins. |
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With his footballing background and business acumen, he seemed the ideal choice for this highly prestigious position. |
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It is not so much his tactical acumen as his ability to inspire that distinguishes Graeme Souness as a coach. |
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Their lack of mathematical acumen is taken by parents and teachers as evidence of laziness, of sloth. |
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The pictures of Gandhi, created with dots and stencil print, stand testimony to the artistic acumen of these students. |
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Leading any cricketing side calls for tactical acumen, that ability to create situations and victories. |
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An increasingly educated electorate can spot bias with greater acumen and astuteness than ever before. |
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Your business acumen and professional creativity are tested in difficult assignments. |
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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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First, you have to have artistic direction that provides inspiration and vision balanced with savvy business acumen. |
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Renowned for his visual acumen and connoisseurship, he grew up in Paris and New York, the son of a scholar of medieval church history. |
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Why is she not more widely praised for her liberal principles and democratic acumen? |
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They seem genuinely surprised when the venture capitalists quite reasonably question their lack of business acumen. |
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He said pilots would be chosen for their tactical acumen, ability to learn quickly and common sense. |
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Greed, under the guise of business acumen and entrepreneurship, has become the new religion. |
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At the same time, many of the vice-presidents offer specialised skills, knowledge and business acumen. |
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His business acumen saw him build and purchase hotels in Galway and Dublin. |
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The results seemed excellent, and he found himself able to work again with his accustomed acumen and vigour. |
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Ten years ago, interest rates ruled very high and therefore it did not require any great financial acumen for investing. |
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Several non-entities and lightweights lacking administrative acumen and political standing were pitchforked into the office of Chief Minister. |
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Be it painting or craftwork, the works on display depicted the acumen and perfection of the creators. |
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Indeed, the Huguenots symbolised the Protestant work ethic and, with their business acumen, became the midwives of British capitalism. |
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I look at their social skills, their vision, their creativity, their business acumen, the whole nine yards. |
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And the nomination of an exemplar indirectly reflects whether one's subculture values literary, scientific, political, or business acumen. |
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His friends say what he lacks in political savvy he makes up in business acumen. |
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As the population shrinks, there are more opportunities for older people to prove their business acumen. |
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Four seismic forces will soon collide to test the president's true political acumen. |
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From as far back as he could remember, he'd had his own sense of business acumen. |
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Most of them have the ideas, acumen and determination to expand their activities but are constrained by the lack of finance capital. |
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He went to law school and struck it rich through the exercise of great acumen in the oil business. |
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And in a contest of social acumen between hyenas and monkeys, who knows who would get the last laugh? |
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Councils need to be run by managers with initiative and a high level of business acumen. |
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Anyone finding it impossible to profit where there is no competition simply demonstrates a lack of business acumen. |
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The canny acumen of business donors leads to inevitable speculation about the tax breaks linked to such donations. |
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Endowed as he was with superb powers of criticism, an impressively hard-headed acumen, he strewed his letters with witty, biting obiter scripts. |
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Of course, all this business acumen didn't come from heading out on the highway looking for adventure. |
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He was born and brought up in Gorse Hill, and first showed his business acumen at the age of 13 when he began farming pigs in his back garden. |
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Unity, flexibility, realism and political acumen are the crying needs of the hour. |
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Yet she is never a Pollyanna, eager to use the amazing accomplishment of her formal acumen to distract us from what she observes. |
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His business acumen has seen the centre firmly established as a benchmark for the industry. |
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Holmes was a master of the flip aphorism, but one shouldn't confuse flip aphorisms with legal acumen. |
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The Gimv Cleantech team combines sector-specific know-how with financial acumen. |
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Soon, helped by his younger brother and armed with only his own duplicity, acumen and dumb luck, Yuri has become a highly successful international gunrunner. |
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Sometimes he delivers with a Dylanesque drawl, while other times his control over his distinct warble and his musical acumen creates an aural beauty of a different kind. |
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The proposed model therefore establishes the procedural acumen necessary for successfully navigating today's roiling oceans of information. |
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It seems important to me to pursue the demonstration that our Mouvement not only has business acumen, but also a social conscience. |
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It takes business acumen, marketing savvy, graphic-arts talent, and a clear understanding of what the customer sees from the other side of the screen. |
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While there were scores of proposals for new facilities, most have been stymied by the capital and marketing acumen required. |
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Her sharp legal acumen and dedication to impartial justice, coupled with her balance and grace, made her an eminently capable jurist. |
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Since then it has been shown that whales, including baleen species, exhibit exceptional acumen. |
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Interesting that Marlo, who comes to replace them, combines their relative strengths of business acumen and tough play on the streets. |
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They believed that his diligence and business acumen would straighten everything out. |
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Thanks to their distribution know-how and business acumen, they were able to gain growing market shares and profits. |
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At the same time, Procyon possesses the business acumen to license these value-added products out to large pharmaceutical firms profitably. |
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As a media organisation the BBC has a unique character combining both the business acumen and creative flair of its diverse workforce. |
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If not, is there someone within your organization with the financial acumen to create a sophisticated financial plan for the business? |
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This reduces remittances, but they take their international experience, increased business acumen and contacts with them. |
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This element measures the level of knowledge and business acumen required to perform the job effectively. |
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Local cooperatives will leverage their business acumen to ensure all members' economic prosperity. |
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I also have confidence in his leadership, manager skills, business acumen and passion for Pyxis' mission. |
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Kathie attributes Sharon's success to her vision, energy and business acumen. |
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Inevitably, the pursuit of strategic competence in any complex policy field requires a pooling of acumen, capabilities, and creativity. |
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She serves on the boards of the Sundance Institute, acumen Fund, VDAY, and Human Rights Watch. |
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The lawyers are chosen not just for their acumen but also with an eye toward the filmic. |
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Novogratz was shocked, since for acumen Fund to succeed, it's vitally important that every single person pays back. |
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It was his business acumen, his own unflagging zeal for the creative business solution, that had freed Sam to do this. |
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His tactical acumen has been rightly criticised, but in the end it seems even his motivational powers were dimmed when he lost his spark for the job. |
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This is surprising because Tamil Nadu, though small, is respected for the intellectual strength, political sagacity, legal acumen and moral rectitude of its people. |
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Personally, I must confess to a sneaking admiration for his acumen, if not for his artistic integrity, but I would not attempt to justify his methods. |
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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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The role will require you to engage with prospective sellers and handhold them through a sale process so first class communication skills and commercial acumen is essential. |
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Eager to apply his business acumen to the stuttering national economy, Blocher had his eye on the finance ministry, but this went instead to a conservative Free Democrat. |
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But while co-operation may make sense, it flies in the face of national self-assertiveness and requires a political acumen and national self-assurance which few nations possess. |
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Building power systems out of central stations required combinations of engineering skill and financial acumen in equal measure. |
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Allegra Stratton, then with The Guardian, praised May as showing managerial acumen. |
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King George I called on Robert Walpole, well known for his political and financial acumen, to handle the emergency. |
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Born Chaja Rubinstein, she first made her way to Australia after picking up some business acumen from relatives in the fur business in Vienna. |
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Augustus' own experience, his patience, his tact, and his political acumen also played their parts. |
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Confucius advocated loyalty to principle rather than to individual acumen, in which reform was to be achieved by persuasion rather than violence. |
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Essinger describes the intellectual curiosity and acumen that led Babbage to invent this machine, which could be programmed using punch cards. |
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The stem leaves are broadly cordate or deltoid at the base, and then more or less suddenly contracted into a long and sharp and denticulate acumen. |
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Franklin set out to test Mr. Oswald's pacifical temperament, and his diplomatic acumen, by raising again the subject of Canada. |
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I have known him for 20 years and admire his audacity, acumen, and vision. |
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The captain-general gave a surrejoinder of still greater length and legal acumen. |
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No, no, my dear Watson! With all respect for your natural acumen, I do not think that you are quite a match for the worthy doctor. |
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The rostrum is concave dorsally, terminating in an upturned acumen, median carina strong. |
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The University's vision is to align education, research and the economy for commercialization of new knowledge and promote the business acumen of researchers and students in this building. |
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Patents are normally needed to prove ownership of the knowledge and new entrepreneurs need not only to be at the forefront of nanotechnology but to combine this with management and business strategy acumen. |
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Both of them lack business acumen and mindset. |
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We're excited about the program because it is designed to give all young Canadians a solid foundation of basic financial acumen that will point them on the right path. |
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You can expect to move through a number of roles in your first few years and to be faced with a wide range of challenges that will hone your skills and develop your business acumen and expertise. |
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More often than not, a limited understanding of markets and business acumen result in products and services that fail to reach or effectively compete in the market or to bring about desired biodiversity benefits. |
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Prospective investors are as much convinced by the personal credibility and perceived business acumen of the Director as they are by the details of the Business Plan. |
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If you need someone with more financial acumen than you have, get help. |
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Soaring scarcity rents during the run-down of the Maui field have trickled down the energy supply chain according to the business acumen and market power of each player. |
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The fact that she said it was our second budget, it was our third, so I am a little bit worried about the financial acumen on that side of the House. |
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On the eve of the match Ferguson had applauded the acumen of his friend and former colleague but could not have guessed that it would be quite so telling here. |
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You see, Caitlyn, when you were a man, we could talk about your athleticism, your business acumen, but now you're a woman, and your looks are really the only thing we care about. |
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The data scientist's skills – advanced analytics, data integration, software development, creativity, good communications skills and business acumen – often already exist in an organisation. |
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Tells of his clumb to success which was due to his business acumen. |
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At the tender age of 14, he displayed such business acumen that the Mitsuis were able to open two stores in Tokyo, which was still called Edo at that time. |
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I will state and openly confess that on this subject I am a dilettante since I possess neither the scientific acumen nor the economic insight to know who is correct. |
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She quickly mastered the details and intricacies of antiquarian bookselling by utilizing her love of books, her meticulous research skills, retentive memory, natural business acumen and understanding of human nature. |
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This leaves little room for manoeuvre should any of them lack business acumen, or the imperviousness to embarrassment that is required to sell synthetic genitalia. |
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Beyond his defensive acumen, beyond the sheer force of his personality, the Jets regard Ryan as their great orator — part general, part politician, part football coach, a toastmaster at heart. |
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It was Beaverbrook's business acumen that allowed Britain to quickly gear up aircraft production and engineering, which eventually made the difference in the war. |
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Manchester's civic leadership has a reputation for business acumen. |
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John's graduates with capitalism and Westernism, their business acumen and investment capital have been welcome in China since China began to open up to a market economy. |
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His outstanding leadership and business-building acumen have led to the successful launch of two of the coin-op industry's leading titles this year. |
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Known as the Rottweiller because of his tough business acumen, he didn't suffer fools gladly but was nevertheless a Jock with a warm heart and terrific sense of humour. |
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Even at the age of nineteen, Edward exhibited remarkable military acumen. |
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A combination of shyness, lack of business acumen, and a determination to stick to the DIY punk ethos of the time caused them to miss opportunities again and again. |
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If business acumen identifies the set of business skills and perspectives that a logistician requires to be successful, then clearly it must include financial literary. |
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