Sentence examples for stratagem and from inspiring English sources

McCulloch had no respect for this stratagem, and he offered the Justice Department a deal.

Military training emphasized the value of surprise, stratagem, and deception, but the value of warning was long neglected.

That same year he shot one of his greatest films, "The Spider's Stratagem," and began shooting one of his most celebrated, "The Conformist".

France bought into that stratagem, and England more or less went along, the three bound by the Triple Entente of 1907.

Barry Turley, a senior consultant with the political lobby group Stratagem, and a former director of communications for the SDLP, disagreed.

Previous School of Drama productions of classics have been staged by such directors as Everett Quinton (Farquhar's "Beaux Stratagem") and Mark Rucker ("Twelfth Night").

He had forgotten the shifty eyes and barbed tongues of the petty — their tricks, stratagems and quarrels.

The cute stratagems and frameworks taught at business schools become quickly redundant in the hurly-burly of economic change.

Where others would see magic realism, they see stratagems and counterstratagems, the threat that people will game the system.

The current inconvenience of hiding has simply altered his stratagems and given his usual winking and mischievous tone an angry, survivalist cast.

Pro football games depend on secret stratagems, and nobody is suggesting that the devising and installing of game plans become public.