Sentence examples for devised a stratagem to from inspiring English sources

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.

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".

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.

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

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

But Mr. Clinton was also employing a stratagem to prevent Republicans from passing large tax cuts in a time of surpluses.

Moses Narboni, for instance, believed that al-Ghazâlî used a stratagem to teach philosophy at a time when it was, according to Narboni, officially prohibited.

As a stratagem to prevent this, radiologists are not allowed to discuss the US findings and results with patients.

Themistocles devised a clever stratagem: feigning retreat, he lured the Persian fleet into the narrow strait.

Despite the roadblock, he devised a plan to help anyway.

So was the ability to devise elegant stratagems to legitimize sexual display.