Modesty in public can be shrewder than hyping up expectations.
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The shrewder strategy would be to delegitimize and sabotage him instead.
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Yet it's also shrewder and better prepared than its hyperviolent brethren ever were.
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Mafiosi hung around him, but he was shrewder than to use them directly.
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It's an even shrewder move when you remember the company is owned by Belgians.
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Mr. Aidid himself proved both frustratingly elusive and far shrewder than the Americans expected.
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Some smaller, shrewder developers have capitalized on the mistreatment or total abandonment of classic properties.
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Mr. Mueller was up against a far shrewder businessperson, who countersued for just one dollar.
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You might imagine that rats raised in the presence of a predator learn to be shrewder.
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As social satire, "The Misanthrope" is by far the more pointed and shrewder of the two plays.
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This one, on the French indie that just backed Salif Keita's first album in nine years, is shrewder.
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But if the Resistance party doesn't find a way to become a shrewder, humbler opposition party, that's not going to happen.
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It would have been more becoming had he simply tipped his hat to one of the shrewder authors of our predicament.
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The shrewder strategy is to assume that such voters are a permanent feature of our elections and make the necessary adjustments.
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The danger is that, even if he is shrewder about obtaining power, he may be no wiser about how to exercise it.
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Confronted with the reality of a pernicious national debt, America has to become shrewder about where and when it exercises military power.
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He has been shrewder than libertarian conservatives in recognizing that individualism is not enough, that the right needs a politics of solidarity.
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They will be back in 2018 with better methods, faster computers, and shrewder strategies – and others will attempt to copy what they did.
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Despite her violent behavior, she's the shrewder and more grounded sister, never wavering from the pair's original aim of reaching the United States.
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In recent years, a combination of shorter agreements, shrewder front offices, and a dramatically spiked cap helped turn bad contracts into an endangered species.
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Mr Modi may suffer by comparison to his predecessor in various ways, but it is hard to argue that Mr Vajpayee was the shrewder politician.
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Viacom was supposed to be the high-growth hope, but Mr. Moonves proved shrewder than Philippe Dauman, who was recently ousted as chief of Viacom.
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Some people around the president also believe Giuliani is playing a shrewder negotiating game than some people give him credit for, at least in one respect.
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He had begun his career as a waggish writer for the conservative Weekly Standard , and his television segments tended to be wittier and shrewder than his competitors'.
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"Donald Trump knows that Robert Mueller is just a lot smarter than him, a lot shrewder than him, and so he's doing all of these things," he said.
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Duterte is shrewder than he is given credit for and his administration would likely require China to first accept the Hague ruling before making any deals, according to Vien.
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Upon initial glance, they read like digital art, but a shrewder inspection reveals how each work is the collaboration of tiny unrelated pieces—the work of Fletschock's intuitive eye.
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Upon initial glance, they read like digital art, but a shrewder inspection reveals how each work is the collaboration of tiny unrelated pieces—the work of Fletschock's intuitive eye.
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The director, Roar Uthaug, and his team make some smart moves, none shrewder than setting the story in and around a real southwestern town, Geiranger, which faces a long, deep fjord.
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But when he's battling a jihadist group, that same tone seems (as Theodor Adorno observed that such bids for authenticity often do) like little more than a shrewder variety of fakeness, a subtler posturing.
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Li Wei, head of the Development Research Centre at the State Council, China's cabinet, sets out clearly that this is for reasons of self-interest—a shrewder tactic than merely mouthing pieties about Chinese benevolence.
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Few GMs are shrewder than Daniels, and even fewer meld those wits with a big-market budget, but the stakes are higher than ever as the pool of outside reinforcements is at its most shallow.
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The US's standing in the world "We have been disrespected, mocked, and ripped off for many, many years by people that were smarter, shrewder, tougher," he said in a March interview with The New York Times.
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"We have been disrespected, mocked, and ripped off for many, many years by people that were smarter, shrewder, tougher," he said, going back to his "Apprentice" roots and demanding the U.S. make better deals with its allies.
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Yet while it's the kind of inoffensive movie that will likely divert younger children over a holiday weekend -- so kudos for the timing -- shrewder adults will politely let some other mom or dad be the one saddled with squiring them.
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She particularly sought to appeal to Republicans and independents who have doubts about Mr. Trump, arguing that she was not an opponent of the Second Amendment as he claimed, and promising to be tougher and shrewder on national security than Mr. Trump.
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He can be embarrassing, as he was often thought to be in his time, in a way that recalls less a polished columnist than a great diarist, like James Boswell or Kenneth Tynan, incapable of being guarded, the way shrewder people are.
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Henry pays homage to Louis VII, King of the Franks, for these lands, but it is clear that Henry is the shrewder and more ambitious of the two kings, having married Louis' ex-wife Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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The Bhutto effectively filled this vacuum. > While these sections of the left were playing 'party - party' and juggling > with democratic change the revolutionary blizzard bypassed them without even > noticing their existence. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, being shrewder in sensing the > mood of the mass movement, had embarked upon the 'need for socialism' and > other radical slogans. This PPP programme clicked with the masses moods, > aspirations and sentiments; the PPP became the largest party of the masses > in the history of Pakistan, almost overnight.
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Five chiefs have already been killed by the "whites" and the intimidated townsfolk believe the sixth one is also doomed. The protagonist is the sixth militia chief, but he is shrewder than his predecessors. Recognizing the superior firepower of his well-armed and zealous enemies, he attempts to mobilise the people in the towns and help them regain faith and hope. He learns that there is a leak in his organisation and that someone is informing the band of all planned operations.
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The Mandrake Root was shot in 14 days in Sassari, on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. The movie crew was from both the UK and Italy, with lead cast from the UK. While the original play La Mandragola was set in Florence, Italy in 1504, the film relocates the story to Sassari in Sardinia, Italy, in a similar period. The action takes place over a period of 24 hours. The comedy’s main theme is the use of deceit and the interplay among the characters who think they are shrewder than the next.
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Paul takes a Fremen lover, Chani, and has a son with her, Leto II. Two years pass, and Paul's powerful prescience abilities manifest, which lead the Fremen to consider him their messiah. Paul recognizes that the Fremen could be a powerful fighting force to take back Arrakis, but also sees that if he does not control them, their jihad could consume the entire universe. Word of the new Fremen leader reaches both Baron Harkonnen and the Emperor as spice production falls due to their increasingly destructive raids. The Baron decides to replace his brutish nephew Glossu Rabban with his shrewder nephew Feyd-Rautha, hoping to gain favor with the Fremen.
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Chambers, Marcia Grand Jury Votes to Indict Goetz Only on Gun Possession Charges The New York Times. January 26, 1985.Rubin, Lillian Quiet Rage: Bernie Goetz in a Time of Madness Berkeley, University of California Press: 1986. The New York Times attributed the victory to Slotnick’s “clever courtroom tactics,” noting that he “turned out to be a shrewder, more accomplished performer than the prosecutor, Gregory Waples.”Anderson, David C. Why Goetz Got Off New York Times. August 14, 1988 In particular, Slotnick’s aggressive questioning of James Ramseur, one of the four shot by Goetz, caused Ramseur to react explosively, which resulted in Ramseur’s entire testimony being stricken from the record including negative statements Ramseur made about Goetz.Youth’s Testimony Stricken in Goetz Trial The Washington Post. May 29, 1987.
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214 Even Queen Victoria herself was said to be amused when Mary Anne commented, in response to a remark about some lady's pale complexion, "I wish you could see my Dizzy in his bath!" Once, at a house party where Lord Hardinge, a great soldier of the day, was in the room next to the Disraelis, Mary Anne announced at breakfast that she had slept the night before between the greatest soldier (Hardinge) and the greatest orator (Disraeli) of their times: Lady Hardinge was definitely not amused. The Disraeli family tomb, Hughenden Disraeli had been unimpressed by Mary Lewis when he first met her, but he came to understand that she was shrewder than her outward manner had led him to believe. She was a great help to him in editing the books he wrote, and spent 30 years taking care of him.
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The boy very readily agreed and managed to suppress conjecture as to her sudden appearance – no easy feat among a Welsh community. As she forecast, the young boy's flocks gained weight and condition and many healthy lambs were born, including exceptional breed rams, he became an astute negotiator at market, enjoyed haggling, kept his humour and his nerve, he secured excellent deals with older, shrewder farmers, won their gradual respect, expanded his flocks, bought his own land, rented land wisely, developed a skillful eye when buying, built up relationships with trusted peers, supported those coming up behind him, knew intuitively who to trust and whose word to discount, expanded into horse breeding and before many years had passed he was a farmer. A man who was welcome wherever he went, sought out by all. His quiet wife kept in the background and produced beautiful, healthy children, ran the household efficiently and was a constant support to her husband.
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Mile High is a three-generational story, beginning with Paddy West, a penniless, totally amoral immigrant from Ireland who through shrewdness and brutality makes himself into the most powerful political boss in New York City; with Paddy's death in 1911 as a Tammany Hall leader, his even shrewder and more brutal son, Edward Courance West, becomes the center of the story, as, at age 20, he conceives, full-blown, a scheme for imposing Prohibition on the United States—purely as a means of making himself an unsurpassed fortune; and finally, in 1958, with Eddie West now the richest man in the world, but also criminally insane, the story shifts to his second son, Walter, a non-criminal architect, and his beautiful new black wife—a woman that the murderous racist Eddie West intends to torture and kill. The book is divided into three parts: "The Minotaur" (the longest); "Theseus and Wife"; and "The Labyrinth". Curiously enough, it was published within a few months of a somewhat similar novel about multi-generational New York gangsters, The Godfather, by a relatively unknown author, Mario Puzo. Puzo and his book went on to worldwide renown, and while Mile High was received reasonably well, it did little to enhance Condon's reputation.
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