Sentence examples for of such gambits from inspiring English sources

Gertrude is the grandmaster of such gambits.

Billed as a preview, Anton Lachky's incessantly diversionary "Private Games: Chapter One" began with high-speed wiggly group movement, then sustained an illusion of spirited improvisation through overlapping solos and outbursts of such gambits as unison face-making, pelvis-thrusting, hip-swinging and torso-shaking.

In contrast to the tried-and-true path of the redistribution of wealth and public investment, such gambits tend to be expensive boondoggles (and in the case of geoengineering, a massive risk to the food and water security of billions of people, who just happen to be in the poorest countries of the global South).

The Americans believed that such gambits, though they might produce front-page "victories," would do little to advance the real task of destroying the German Army.

It hopes to get the DOJ to agree to the deal rather than having to fight its case in court (hearings are scheduled to begin in February 2012).The chances of such a gambit working are slim a fact that even AT&T itself recognises.

The 54-year-old Los Angeles filmmaker Glenn Spann knows the effects of such a gambit all too well.

Of course, such a gambit would at least temporarily neutralize the very strength that Harden brought to the table, namely a game-and-pace-changing combo guard as adept at hitting a step-back 3-pointer as he was threading a pinpoint pass off a pick – a skill set that Martin can replicate, if not duplicate.

But Findlay Prep, and other competitors in the ESPN gambit, aren't members of such federations.

Supporters of the New Labour tradition of Whitehall diktats and believers in the power of gambits, such as the energy price freeze, in changing voters' minds, will find much in this manifesto that pleases – like the extension to 25 hours of guaranteed childcare or the mansion tax to pay for further NHS spending.

But such late gambits are rarely effective.

This game already featured some key aspects of the gambit, such as active play for the black pieces, and White making the typical mistake of moving the queen too early.