Sentence examples for stratagem on from inspiring English sources

(According to him, Jesus employed the same stratagem on Calvary, actually dying twenty years later).

At that point, possibly due to a stratagem on Li Yuan's behalf, the arrival of the rest of the rebel army, or to the flanking manoeuvres of Li Yuan's cavalry, which had gotten behind the Sui army, the Sui troops collapsed and routed, fleeing back towards Huoyi.

This stratagem — one could even call it a stunt — had a wonderful effect on the ballet.

Hence, a phage stratagem of relying on both conserving previously successful elements for host recognition and on random recruitment of similar elements from a much wider population seems well adapted to creating the required diversity in a semi-intelligent (or at least not totally random) fashion.

In one stratagem to increase revenue, the firm is partnering with midscale Kohl's stores to expand beyond Lauder's perch on traditional department store counters.

What are the things he might have improved on to make things go better?" It is too soon to know the effect of these stratagems on the school's students, since part of the protocol agreed to with the Department of Education requires that they be followed for four years.

He was sentenced to a year in prison and forfeiture of his wealth (except for a sizable chunk that he had settled on Johanna by the legal stratagem of divorcing her).

This is a characteristic stratagem of Mr. MacIvor, who has always operated on the assumption that the scariest part of a scene is when the audience is waiting to see a murder, not when it happens.

Moreover, the surface engineering stratagem of many functional groups originating from PCDAA on the surface of PCL PEG PCL NPs, offers the ability to facilely conjugate fluorescent dyes or targeting ligands, which broad their application in biomedical field.

But the randy "computer wizard," like everything else in this poem, is partly a stratagem to keep us on the hook, a preview of coming attractions, an enticement — to her readers, to Tanning herself — to tune in next week.

Though the plot of "Widow" picks up in the second half of the novel, as Keith embarks on a stratagem to drug Lily so that he can sleep with Scheherazade, this shred of a story line isn't enough to sustain interest or to support the heavy garlands of pontification that Mr. Amis insists on draping over everything.