Sentence examples for booby traps of from inspiring English sources
He is now a registered financial adviser, and his blog, as the name implies, is devoted to illuminating the public about the booby traps of investing.
Except, of course, that it doesn't, because perfection in sports, like life, is subject to the vagaries of chance and the booby traps of the human mind.
Through such aperçus and vignettes, Mr. Meyer identifies the booby traps of imperial self-delusion, warning against the Asian heartland as a "temptation to be resisted".
The recent row over "Is humanitarian design the new imperialism?" was triggered by the spectacle of well-meaning designers striding guilelessly into the political booby traps of economic development.
Missiles attached to donkey carts or fake electricity generators have been used to deadly effect -- often with booby traps of explosives hidden in the wheel wells of vehicles.
A shopkeeper said the number of Islamist fighters in Kunduz had increased early on Tuesday and that they had planted booby traps on some of the roads leading out of the city.
That was wrong, just as the Cameron government's latest booby trap of a trade union bill is sectarian and wrong.
Their attempt to neutralise the bellicose, badass Kodiak with an Indiana Jones-style booby trap of sharpened sticks is almost hilariously ineffective; in the end, it's the bear's own bodyweight that does for him, skewered on a well-anchored spear.
That way, the booby trap of the existing recall process — the strong possibility that an incumbent who is unacceptable to a small majority will get traded in for a challenger who is unacceptable to a large majority — would be eliminated, while its advantages would be left intact.
The campaign has thus become a disturbing cult of personality, and a minefield of booby traps for black leaders, old white guys, anyone who strays off message and now any voice of satire or wit.
American troops were attacked virtually every time they sallied from their base, whether by snipers or by booby traps consisting of piles of explosive stuffed into sewers.
