(1) That “social enterprise” is just a figleaf, which canny, profit-driven companies can manipulate (Emma Harrison, founder of A4e, famously used to call it a “social purpose company” before the Advertising Standards Authority, of all people, put a stop to it ).
(2) It's this canny media awareness that has made obscure Kafranbel one of the unlikely focal points of the revolution.
(3) Some gifted and canny writers have made a mint by appealing to teenagers’ sense of anguish and victimhood, the notion that they are forever embattled and persecuted by a rotten world run by authoritarian bozos.
(4) However, even if they did tune in for that reason, the quarter-hour breakdown suggests viewers stayed with the debate – a canny bit of scheduling by the broadcaster.
(5) But the paper was also canny enough to say the school would be run by evangelical Christian sponsors."
(6) Adopted by studio owner Chris Moon and manager Owen Husney, he began plotting his route to a record deal, cultivating a canny air of mystique while playing up to an X-rated image he'd developed after an early immersion in pornography.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Route planners have been canny in their research, judging by the reaction from Mike Herrieven who has run Mere village stores in a wooden cabin at Hoo Green for 20 years, but doesn't expect to last another five.
(8) Such gestures reveal a canny politician with a carefully cultivated folksy style.
(9) But with Asda, Waitrose, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Ocado and Morrisons vying for our custom, canny shoppers can take advantage of the competition and shave pounds off delivery costs – and even demand free delivery in return for loyalty.
(10) These lands once taught Americans what it meant to be independent, stubborn and canny.
(11) "The chasm in price between a home inside the M25 and one in the country is at last no longer growing but canny buyers are seeing this and far more inquiries I receive are now from people wanting to cash in on the seemingly ludicrous value of their shoebox of a home and snap up a slice of country living."
(12) Her new book, Vagina, is attracting a lot of attention, not least for the title, a canny piece of marketing that she didn't hesitate to use, she says, "because that word is either so taboo or surrounded with negative connotations or draped in shame or medicalised , it's really important to take it back".
(13) It was one of those canny-to-the-point-of-irritating references the Old Etonian used to specialise in; a flash of his real-world accreditation.
(14) Cameron would have to prove he was being politically canny, inviting Lib Dems into areas that are most likely to explode.
(15) He’s also one of the first players to emerge out of the league to become one of its coaches, and his and general manager Garth Lagerwey’s canny use of the draft may well reflect his own experience as a player.
(16) It stands as a testament to the boom years of Gaza’s smuggling business with Egypt, when a canny tunnel operator could get rich transporting anything from cars to cattle and household goods.
(17) But the Conservatives don’t see what’s happened to their dominance.” Crosby’s British admirers make much of the canny anti-Livingstone campaigns he orchestrated for Boris Johnson in left-leaning London in 2008 and 2012.
(18) She had also run a canny campaign in which she toted a rifle and went hunting, but also demonstrated a tenderness towards disadvantaged children.
(19) No wonder some canny infants like to play with train sets.
(20) One minute later Soldado dragged a shot wide from the edge of the area after being brilliantly set up by Paulinho who, until he was forced off by injury in the second half, was outstanding in midfield, bewildering opponents and delighting the home supporters with canny flicks and festive tricks.
Conny
Definition:
(a.) Brave; fine; canny.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite pushing the accord hard, America's deputy climate change envoy, Jonathan Pershing, revealed some concerns about it in the meeting with the EU climate action commissioner, Connie Hedegaard.
(2) Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for climate action, said: "To put these figures into perspective, these [10] airlines represent less than 3% of total aviation emissions.
(3) Connie Hedegaard, the outgoing European commission climate chief, also at the summit, said: “Some businesses are really doing a lot and I applaud them as much as I can.
(4) Green MEPs have been moved to demand that Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard act now against carbon credits from the Honduran palm oil plantations – which are still available on the ETS.
(5) The use of carbon permits from industrial gas projects in China could be banned because of their "total lack of environmental integrity", the climate change commissioner, Connie Hedegaard , has told the Guardian.
(6) Connie Britton and Jane Fonda in This is Where I leave You.
(7) As the high-level political part of the summit began, its Danish president, Connie Hedegaard, echoed the pessimism of the prime minister: "In these very hours we are balancing between success and failure.
(8) Connie Hedegaard, who will preside over the Copenhagen talks as Denmark's climate and energy minister, and Nicholas Stern, also attended.
(9) The magazine includes a column called Kremlin Expert that relays political news in the voice of Putin's black labrador retriever Connie.
(10) Clark, Connie (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), and E. L. Schmidt.
(11) Connie Hedegaard, climate commissioner, said the recession would make it cheaper than expected for the continent to hit its target to reduce carbon pollution 20% by 2020.
(12) 8 | Kate Aldridge’s husband Facebook Twitter Pinterest Connie M’Gadzah, who played Kate’s husband Lucas Madikane.
(13) "The penis is much overvalued," he declared to Connie.
(14) At 11 or 12, no one is quite sure, Joey starts fucking Connie from next door, "a grave and silent little person" who has been fixated with him since infancy.
(15) But the Danish Energy Agency, which runs the registry and climate ministry, previously led by the EU's new climate chief Connie Hedegaard, have been criticised for a slow response which allowed alleged fraudulent trades to continue.
(16) "Today's drought declaration is better late than never," said Connie Conway of Tulare, the assembly minority leader.
(17) As the former EU commissioner for climate action, Connie Hedegaard, has emphasised , negotiators will be sipping their champagne in the last-chance saloon for UN-led action.
(18) In Le Carré-era MI5, there were a lot of Connies [Connie Sachs, the Circus's principal researcher played by Kathy Burke in the film] who never dreamed of developing sources face to face.
(19) The energy efficiency report has been carefully timed – on Tuesday the climate change commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, will unveil her own "roadmap to 2050" showing how the EU can cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80%, in line with the its international commitments.
(20) Connie Hedegaard, the climate change commissioner in Brussels , is concerned at the lobbying, and is determined to maintain Europe's lead in developing renewable energy and clean technology.