Sentence examples for laying traps for from inspiring English sources

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"It's preparation, gauging how good your opponent is at what they're doing, and laying traps for them and luring them in – or being counter-trapped by them.

YELLING, scheming and sabotaging: all are tell-tale signs that a bully is at work, laying traps for employees at every pass.

The bear was killed by Gjermund Roesholt, Theoret's partner, when he returned home from laying traps for game.

He said: "They're laying traps for Ed Miliband and he should not fall in to those traps".

When everyone else is selling shares in a panic, their dividend-based disciplines keep them cool and steady, laying traps for plunging stocks and snaring them as bargains.

Originally, Sneak King was designed as a tile-based puzzle game, but it soon evolved into a Spy vs Spy caper with multiple Kings "trying to out-deliver one another while laying traps for their enemies".

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In both books, language lays traps for the unwitting.

The decision that no Vietnamese was a good enough security risk was based on previous experiences, in which the enemy had learned about operations ahead of time and had laid traps for the attackers or simply disappeared.

It laid traps for Trump as well, baiting the candidate to attack Romney personally to demonstrate he is a bully, daring him to open his tax returns and challenging him to release off-the-record comments he made to the New York Times editorial board about his signature immigration issue.

When his army failed to trigger a carefully laid trap for retreating Federals at Spring Hill, Hood concluded that his soldiers lacked the customary offensive spirit he had experienced earlier in Lee's Virginia army.

The terrain was ideal for laying traps and hiding bombs.

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