Sentence examples for a stratagem of from inspiring English sources

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

It may be enough to know that, in theory-drunk circles of the period, any sort of aesthetic appeal could be regarded as a stratagem of "late capitalist" ideology or some other wrinkle of malign social power.

The Persians made an unsuccessful attempt to take Muscat, defeated by a stratagem of the new Imam Sultan bin Murshid.

When Cutler, who by the '70s has gone solo, refuses to record a potential hit, Flynn devises a stratagem to convince him of huge radio demand for it; Cutler takes the bait, the song shoots up the charts, "and Emerson was very happy about the whole thing because it had all been his idea".

We usually think of vacation as a stratagem to divert your brain with new sights and tastes (a "change").

The danger of a rupture was averted by the good sense and magnanimity of Garibaldi and by a diplomatic stratagem of Cavour.

This is a characteristic stratagem of Mr. MacIvor, who has always operated on the assumption that the scariest part of a scene is when the audience is waiting to see a murder, not when it happens.

The second book develops the argument from design to oppose atheism, and the third introduces a favourite stratagem of More's, the rehearsal of well-known or well-attested stories of witchcraft, snake-charming, raising of tempests by the power of words, and other "spiritual" phenomena as evidence for the existence of an immaterial realm (Coudert 1990, Crocker 2003).

The Germans had adopted a defensive stratagem of massing their aircraft, now increasingly outnumbered, at critical points of the front.

Hence, a phage stratagem of relying on both conserving previously successful elements for host recognition and on random recruitment of similar elements from a much wider population seems well adapted to creating the required diversity in a semi-intelligent (or at least not totally random) fashion.

It was then that I hit on a stratagem,the sort of thing that comes on a synaptical flutter like the beating of internal wings: "Do you want to see my scorpions?" I watched his face change, the image of a foreshortened arachnid with its claws and pendent stinger rising miasmic before him.