They played the cannier game in conditions that were always likely to deny us all a proper climax, and England were a good 30 runs away from setting a seriously competitive target.
BBC: Jonathan Agnew column
The word at a do-gooders' shindig held in April, the Global Philanthropy Forum, was that big private donors will want cannier use of their money.
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The plan's backers hope that fresh funds and cannier investment will give the Tokyo stockmarket a lift, by putting pressure on companies to improve shareholder value.
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The farmers themselves were cannier.
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Since then, the Foreign Office in particular has worried that staying out of integrationist projects is a cannier tactic than it is a strategy.
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Reformers in Beijing argue that most farmers are far cannier than officials suspect.
ECONOMIST: Urbanisation
Mr Hutton is a cannier, less flamboyant operator than Mr Milburn.
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Its chief innovation is suggesting that Scotland raise more of the money it spends, in the hope that fiscal responsibility might make its politicians cannier with taxpayers' cash.
ECONOMIST: Devolution finances
Institutions, presumably, will be rather cannier.
ECONOMIST: Hedge funds
In short, Mr Prodi, often portrayed as a crumpled-looking professor more at home teaching economics in his native Bologna than playing politics in Rome, has been a good deal tougher and cannier than he looked.
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But perhaps even cannier than hiring a shill to look like someone influential is employing a shill to sound like someone influential.
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Timing may not be everything, but it's comforting to think that it might be cannier, easier and more effective to be slightly behind The Times.
时间安排可能不是一切,但是想到稍稍落后于时代就能更谨慎,轻松和有效,还是很让人欣慰的。
Some think that he would be cannier to ask for the job of shadow home secretary.
有人认为他会变得狡猾,申请影子内政大臣的工作。
Cannier viticulture and higher professional standards are also bearing fruit.
精细的葡萄酒种植和更加专业的水准同样能种出果实。
British consumers are cannier than ever but many suffer from bargain blindness.
英国消费者越来越精明了,但是很多人还是会被打折失明症坑到。

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