Sentence examples for stratagem by from inspiring English sources
THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM By Hannah Cowley; directed by Davis McCallum; stage manager, Bailie Slevin; choreographer, Tracy Bersley; costumes, Naomi Wolff; sets, Mimi Lien; lighting, Jorge Arroyo; sound, Jeremy Lee.
Downtown, the Pearl Theater is offering a commendable production of Sheridan's classic "Rivals," while on the Upper West Side the Prospect Theater Company has mounted a deft staging of "The Belle's Stratagem" by Hannah Cowley, one of Britain's first female playwrights.
And in another passage he suggests that the rite of communion, so "obscenely close to human sacrifice and cannibalism," was part of a desperate stratagem by God to help "revoke the expectations aroused in his people by the Exodus from Egypt -- expectations that he knows he will never again meet -- without altogether destroying his relationship with them".
Widespread conviction can be false, of course, which is why the method of the School of Common Sense was thought suspect by many, described by Kant, for example, as a stratagem by which "the stalest windbag can confidently take up with the soundest thinker" (Kant 1783/1951: 259).
"These laws are simply the latest stratagem by corporations that produced and distributed asbestos-containing products to avoid responsibility for the deaths and injuries of millions of Americans caused by those products," Inselbuch testified.
Vietnamese prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung's policy towards journalists is to brand them as malevolent enemies and to dismiss revelations about communist party corruption as "despicable stratagems by hostile forces".
Escaping southward into Araucanian Indian country soon after Valdivia began conquering it in 1550, Lautaro joined the Araucanians, unified their tribal organization, and with their chief, Caupolicán, led them in battle, further improving on the shrewd tactics and stratagems by which they had often defeated the Spaniards.
Narratively, we registered how disaster movies are basically structured the same way: a quotidian existence is interrupted by an anomaly manufactured by different apparatuses, whether scientific, military, administrative, pedagogical, or civilian, which are then turned into real objects of crisis and catastrophe and deployed as political stratagems by a governmental apparatus.
What government officials present as a control measure for anger and suffering is, in fact, an underclass-eradicating stratagem deployed by the élites.
Borrowing a stratagem used by investment banks, the firm plans to use $25 million of its own money and its employees' money to start a fund that will invest in private companies, primarily those that hire Heidrick & Struggles to find executives for them.
Dampier's epic voyaging led him to Virginia, a prospering colony with 43,000 inhabitants, in 1682, and to St. John's Island, near Hong Kong, where he wondered whether the bound feet of the Chinese women constituted "a stratagem" devised by men to keep them from "gadding about and gossiping".
