Sentence examples for opening gambit for from inspiring English sources

PEARL CRYSTAL SCHER had a strong opening gambit for her first campaign for elective office.

Though the words sound like "a milli, a milli" repeated over and over, the sampled lyric may originally have been "a biddley-biddley," a common opening gambit for MCs in Jamaican dancehall during the seventies and eighties.

It was an unusual opening gambit for the director of the European food safety authority, but Dr Herman Koéter wanted to tackle the persistent controversy that has swirled around the artificial sweetener aspartame head on.

As with the debate over the trade deficit, the German chancellor's power to change the status quo around Nord Stream 2 remains limited – not an ideal opening gambit for the kind of dealmaking process apparently favoured by Trump.

BBC deputy political editor James Landale said the figures were not final, but the Treasury's "opening gambit for negotiations in the weeks ahead".

President Trump's decision to block a mega-merger deal between Broadcom and Qualcomm appears to be just the opening gambit for a significantly bolder strike on Chinese technology and investment firms as well as Chinese nationals learning and working in the United States.

The interaction doesn't always have to involve the rather creepy opening gambit of clandestine street photography, he added: "It also looks for similar people.

It is such a nervy (not to mention critic-massaging) opening gambit that for a tantalizing moment this high-tech spy yarn looks to be one of the brighter progeny of "Pulp Fiction".

One last rumour suggests that the Saudi move may represent the opening gambit in a strategy to secure a Security Council presence for the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, a 57-nation body heavily dominated by the Saudis, which ostensibly represents the world's Muslims.

"You're my idol, man," the kid blurts, whatever opening gambit he'd carefully rehearsed deserting him.

Now most Brazilians know who Lula's candidate is and increasingly, they intend to vote for her.In this section Thinking the unthinkable A ghost reappears Reflected glory Opening gambits ReprintsOn August 5th, the day of the first televised debate between candidates, one polling firm put Ms Rousseff on 41.6%, a ten-point lead over Mr Serra.