Sentence examples for stratagem is from inspiring English sources
That sort of stratagem is pure hokum, but other operational details stick close to the real thing.
It is not planned in as much detail as a stratagem, is less contrived than an artifice and does not have the coquettish quality of a wile.
In the main line of the Queen's Indian Defense Fianchetto Variation, Black's principal stratagem is to prevent White from achieving a powerful pawn center with e4.
Although Carlisle and company certainly deserve praise for this clever twist in their defensive assignments, the creativity displayed with this stratagem is predicated on the defensive flexibility of the Mavs' roster, and in particular, of Marion.
Both relied on wordplay for much of the humor -- the familiar Mrs. Malaprop enlivens "The Rivals" and the character Doricourt in "The Belle's Stratagem" is full of caustic observations that foreshadow the epigrams of Wilde.
The problem with that stratagem is that, eventually, it destroys the theory's testability: astrology does this by refusing to countenance any negative instance; it renders itself unfalsifiable and therefore superficial.
As if Wilson's 1975 stratagem was some deeply embedded part of the constitution instead of the first UK-wide referendum in history, and at the time a distinctly un-British and spatchcocked solution to the split in his party.
If the public had any strong concerns about the legitimacy of this process, many of them evaporated on September 11th 2001 when it became widely accepted that against a deadly and globally networked enemy, every stratagem was needed.
In order to increase the load-carrying capacity of PSB bending members, fiber reinforced PSB beam stratagem was proposed in present study.
However, the Germans had not realised this stratagem was by no means the uniform strategy in Fighter Command.
Four Directions' most telling stratagem was donating $5,000 to cover a full-fledged Shannon County election, with 22 days of early voting, a general election day and an on-reservation polling place.
