Sentence examples for of a stratagem from inspiring English sources

After Alexander's death, however, Antigonus gave Nicaea, Alexander's widow, to his son Demetrius in marriage and by means of a stratagem regained Corinth in 244.

Not much of a stratagem, since "O," the director Tim Blake Nelson's updating of "Othello" set in an American prep school, was made so long ago than Mekhi Phifer could still get away with playing a teenager -- well, almost.

Bentham addressed the potential disjunction between an agent's perception of her interest and her real interest in his writings on indirect law, which he described as "a secret plan of connected and long-concerted operations to be executed in the way of a stratagem or petite guerre" (2010b, 233).

In April of 1990, he announced to the Wall Street Journal a plan to sell certain assets and become the "king of cash," a stratagem that would supposedly set the stage for a shrewd campaign of bargain hunting.

I reached out to Ms. Allred on Friday to discuss what many people were coming to view as the systemic silencing of women — a stratagem that, yes, compensates the accusers, but also enriches the lawyers who arrange the deals and, arguably, leaves other women vulnerable.

Every entrepreneur worth his or weight in bestselling business books is familiar with the philosophy of the lean start-up--a stratagem which advocates learning, analytics and iteration, and offers a more measured approach to organizational progress and expansion.

It may be enough to know that, in theory-drunk circles of the period, any sort of aesthetic appeal could be regarded as a stratagem of "late capitalist" ideology or some other wrinkle of malign social power.

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

And Themistocles, having by means of so clever a stratagem fortified his native land speedily and without danger, enjoyed high favour among his fellow citizens.

30 There is a history of violence used as a stratagem for policing social unrest, and reports of police violence targeting vulnerable groups.

In a speech in Washington, Governor Oliver P. Morton characterized it as merely a "stratagem of war".