Sentence examples for gambit and a from inspiring English sources

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should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down Travel Ban before the Supreme Court - & seek much tougher version!" This presents the executive order as an opening gambit, and a model for future, broader actions.

I find it amazing, as a Cagean gambit and a grueling, weirdly beautiful meditation on nothingness and artist's block, but I admit it took a while to sink in.

For those who don't know the difference between a King's Gambit and a Sicilian Defence, the brilliance of Fischer's moves must be taken on trust, although Brady's succinct description of Fischer's play captures his signature style: "crystalline – transparent but ingenious".

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In 2008 measles was declared endemic in Britain and Wales, for the first time in 14 years, and the journal notes "hundreds of thousands of children in the UK are currently unprotected as a result of the scare". Parents in the U.S. followed the same course, without once being told by the lawyers that it was, in fact, a legal gambit and not a valid scientific theory.

Most of the media delivered scathing verdicts on the billionaire politician's gambit and, in a wry joke at a peace conference organised by the community of Sant'Egidio, Letta asked the audience to say "some prayers for Italy".

Expect this latest show to contain more of his trademark irate ranting about utterly inoffensive subjects, plenty of absurd theatrical gambits, and a generous helping of fey gentility.

Thirty days and counting into the longest federal government shutdown in history, Trump has found little support for his holiday weekend gambit and more than a few new critics among his conservative base.

The creation of Telangana was a gambit, and as such it was an utter disaster.In Telangana, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) is credited with having won independence for the region.

Out on Friday, in a week dominated by seriousface Oscar fare, it's a bold marketing gambit, and one that requires a certain amount of "bad meaning good" cognizance to fully appreciate, It's also a window into the irreverent sensibility of the genre to which Movie 43 so gleefully subscribes: gross-out.

Although the offer made by the opposition leader, Sheik Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib, was by his own admission a personal gambit and was initially greeted with a torrent of criticism inside the Syrian opposition movement, his colleagues in the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces basically endorsed it over the weekend.

The aggressive Timman, after bluffing an early counterattack, curled up into a defensive posture for the rest of the game, whereas the conservative Karpov, after refusing a gambit and continuing quietly for many moves, suddenly switched to a wild, almost incalculable attempt to win an endgame.

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