Sentence examples for a stratagem from inspiring English sources

Dana White, the president of the U.F.C., tried a stratagem familiar to fight promoters everywhere.

There Arion's friend Periander, tyrant of Corinth, eventually learned the truth by a stratagem.

The Pentagon has announced no plans to test the kill vehicle against such a stratagem.

By a stratagem, Aurangzeb managed to isolate Akbar, who fled to the Deccan and thence to Persia.

It is also a stratagem to ensure understanding, providing the opportunity for explanation and elaboration whenever that is desirable.

In a speech in Washington, Governor Oliver P. Morton characterized it as merely a "stratagem of war".

It may all be artifice, like the poet himself who, as Johnson said, "hardly drank tea without a stratagem".

Every entrepreneur worth his or weight in bestselling business books is familiar with the philosophy of the lean start-up--a stratagem which advocates learning, analytics and iteration, and offers a more measured approach to organizational progress and expansion.

Every week, it seems, Obama has a new narrative, a new gambit, a new stratagem, or a new "game changing" speech.

Humor — generated by incongruities of scale, the workings of chance and the intrinsic preposterousness of goats, snails and people — amounts almost to a philosophical stratagem, a way of exploring how the world works and how it looks.

Her naturalization as a U.S. citizen was revoked by a legal stratagem in 1908.