Then, in 2015, the Dodo made its canniest move to date.
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One of the canniest things Lucas did was wear his influences on his sleeve.
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Sneaker companies are among the canniest of manufacturers, anticipating the needs, wants and desires of their consumers.
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Sound smart: Even the canniest department-store executives will struggle to grow their business in the face of online competition.
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Shyamalan's canniest move is to make the things haunting the characters rarely be actual ghosts but, instead, past failures and sorrows.
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At the end, a now cancer-riddled Miss Brodie accuses the canniest of her former girls (Rona Morrison, excellent) of killing her.
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Khrushchev soon emerges as one of the canniest of these survivors, though Beria moves faster and initially with far more lethal force.
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The canniest "feudals", says Badar Alam, editor of a current-affairs magazine, have long since morphed or married into the rising industrial class.
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He's a new-age ad salesman with a crush on one of history's canniest political operators — who happened to know the power and value of propaganda.
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His canniest move has been to back growing calls for the federal government to grant Sarawak greater autonomy, co-opting a cause long championed by the opposition.
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The canniest of these flatterers, and the one who had the most lasting impact, was Laurens van der Post, a South African-born author, documentary filmmaker, and amateur ethnographer.
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Profanities — well, really just one — are sprinkled throughout "Hero," this 26-year-old singer and songwriter's outstanding major label debut album, and perhaps the canniest country record in recent memory.
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In such a case, he predicts, voters will feel a perennial dissatisfaction, stemming from the tendency of their canniest and most long-lasting politicians to be cavalier about campaign promises.
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Cech was soon considered one of the best keepers in the league, Carvalho was one of the canniest defensive operators around and, up front, Drogba terrorised opposition centre-backs with his physicality and brute strength.
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Widely seen as one of the canniest international operators, particularly when it comes to managing Trump, the former Norwegian prime minister gave a somewhat testy performance when interviewed by a BBC journalist as part of a parallel "NATO Engages" event.
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A flick through his new book Real Food, which brings together over 200 of his food shots taken across two decades all over the world, reveals an obsession with the kind of nutritionally derelict convenience foods even the canniest of food marketers would have trouble attaching to any emerging trend.
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Paradoxically, Sanders' biggest "mistake" of the campaign — saying the American people don't "give a damn" about Clinton's email server — has turned out to be one of his canniest moves: The fact that he turned down a free shot at the first debate has given him a permission structure to subsequently hammer her relentlessly.
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Which is to say, the 40-something American Pope Pius XIII (played by the British and youngish Jude Law) may rule the Vatican as an awful authoritarian, boasting that he is a "politician far cannier" than the canniest cardinal, but the 80-year-old Pope Francis is the one conducting a political master class.
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He simply doesn't have a model beyond consensus-seeking, which is why his camp is floating the absurd claim that Uncle Joe is the only candidate who can strike deals with the Democrats' canniest enemy, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, when the record shows McConnell ruthlessly undermining the Obama White House's ability to execute consensus-style governance at every turn.
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While Ball was testing whether his sneakers could hold up to the rigors of an N.B.A. game, Floyd Mayweather, one of the canniest boxers ever, got together with the profane mixed-martial artist Conor McGregor to put on a high-energy, four-city car wreck of a promotion that skidded past pretty much every established standard of taste and competition.
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" His canniest thrust was reserved for campus political correctness: Colleges, he said, try "to create the perception that the minority is the majority and the majority is not just the minority but a bad, racist, homophobic — all these buzzwords that they learned in their freshman orientation class at Wesleyan are used as weapons to try to destroy you and to intimidate you to not speak up and to speak your mind, and your days of doing this are over!
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Perhaps the only upbeat part of the Sydney Chinese story in these decades was the spectacular success of a few of the canniest of the fruit traders. While the Great Depression of the 1930s had a negative effect on the trading of many market gardeners and stallholders, a few firms were able to consolidate. When the City Council constructed new market buildings closer to Darling Harbour in the early years of the twentieth century, the Chinese traders followed. Dixon Street emerged as the hub of Sydney's third Chinatown.
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