All of this might suggest that the two spend a lot of time devising stratagems.
The only time she ever disobeyed her parents was when she and Joe Kennedy devised stratagems to see one another more frequently than her family wished.
So was the ability to devise elegant stratagems to legitimize sexual display.
To outwit border guards who were not so obliging, some East Berliners devised ingenious stratagems.
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".
Eumenes, however, had a start of two watches; therefore Antigonus, knowing that it was not easy to overtake with his whole army a force that was so far ahead, devised a stratagem as follows.
The 7th-century historian Theophylact Simocatta reports that after a few days, Priscus devised a stratagem to force the Avars to withdraw: he allowed one of his guards to be captured, bearing a fake letter purportedly coming from Maurice that informed Priscus of a seaborne attack against the Avars' homeland.
This extended editorial explores the growing range of stratagems devised by journal editors to boost their Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and the consequences for the credibility of this indicator as well as for the academic community more broadly.
Themistocles devised a clever stratagem: feigning retreat, he lured the Persian fleet into the narrow strait.
For all that, there is some prospect that the pope and the archbishop may feel more at ease with one another than their predecessors, whose relationship chilled when Benedict XVI devised a canonical stratagem to lure dissident Anglicans from the Church of England, then led by the Most Rev. Rowan Williams.
Dampier's epic voyaging led him to Virginia, a prospering colony with 43,000 inhabitants, in 1682, and to St. John's Island, near Hong Kong, where he wondered whether the bound feet of the Chinese women constituted "a stratagem" devised by men to keep them from "gadding about and gossiping".
