6 sentences with “astute”

Charles Sorensen, Knudsen's rival in the Ford hierarchy, was too astute ... and most of the other executives went along with him.

Under the leadership of its astute royal minister, Cardinal Richelieu, France worked to keep its Habsburg rivals in check despite the shared Catholicism of the French and Habsburg states.

Much of the credit was due to an astute diplomat, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, himself a former official under Napoleon, who persuaded the other representatives to include France as an equal partner rather than an enemy to be punished.

Philip IV also proved incredibly astute in creating new taxes and in attacking and seizing land and property from groups such as the French Jewish community and the Knights Templar, whom he plundered (the raid on the Knights Templar began in 1307).

Therefore, the Teutonic Knights could make a very plausible case for their Crusades as analogous to the Spanish Reconquista, and the Teutonic Knights proved to be very astute in placing agents in the papal court who worked to maintain papal support for their efforts.

Rumours in the west claimed that Antony was under Cleopatra's thumb (unlikely: the two were politically astute and seem to have shared a genuine affection for each other) and was breaking with traditional Roman values, and Octavian seized on this behaviour to claim that he was the true protector of Roman morality.