Shrewd tactics.

But Qaddafi is shrewd.

With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

Historically, sovereign lending was a job for a few intrepid financiers, who drove shrewd bargains and were adept at statecraft.

In many ways, the Blair government s support of free market policies turned out to be a shrewd and productive shift.

Often, political leaders and military and security elites have proven as shrewd and tenacious in avoiding justice as they showed themselves cunning and brutal in doing injustice.

Marine Le Pen, the National Front s leader, is shrewd and efficient, running on a straightforward message Europe is against the people, so the people must mobilize against Europe.

Of course, like any shrewd politician, Thatcher knew which battles were unwinnable, or had to be postponed but she always preferred winning a fight to reaching a compromise.

While even a shrewd economist like the former US Federal Reserve Board member Alan Blinder thought this, it is not likely for several reasons, both natural and manmade.

Obama s one new priority to expand US support for African farmers reflects a shrewd appreciation of how the expansion of agriculture can quickly lift many rural Africans out of poverty.

But a new book, Private Equity at Work, by Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt, explains exactly how a few people have become immensely rich through the shrewd strategic use of debt.

But shrewd observation of that experience also reveals a good deal of diversity in the timing, pace and content of industrial development, reflecting differences in resource endowments, size and geographical location.

Mayawati s shrewd alliances, including with some members of the upper castes, which propelled her to power in Uttar Pradesh, give her party a fighting chance to win a number of other seats as well.

In her recent book Drone Warfare Killing by Remote Control, Medea Benjamin, a peace activist and shrewd observer of international relations, makes a crucial point While drones make it easier to kill some bad guys, they also make it easier to go to war.

For the essential question about Sarko diplomacy is whether it reflects a well defined strategy, based on a clear vision of the world, or merely expresses a shrewd and pragmatic activism that applies a keen domestic political instinct to the field of foreign affairs?

TOKYO President Hu Jintao s visit to Washington is coming at an increasingly tense moment in Sino American relations. Indeed, mesmerized by China s vast military buildup, a new constellation of strategic partnerships among its neighbors, and America s revitalized commitment to Asian security, many shrewd observers suggest that 2010 saw the first sparks of a new Cold War in Asia. But is Cold War II really inevitable?