Sentence examples for stratagem that from inspiring English sources

This was the same stratagem that killed off almost all subprime lenders when the Russian debt crisis rocked the world's financial markets in 1998.

In 1919 the British tried to impose a protectorate over Iran, a stratagem that failed when the Majles (parliament) refused to ratify the project.

Among his ministers, he subtly established competing power factions a stratagem that had the ultimate effect of retarding governmental functioning and bureaucratic modernization.

In April of 1990, he announced to the Wall Street Journal a plan to sell certain assets and become the "king of cash," a stratagem that would supposedly set the stage for a shrewd campaign of bargain hunting.

Opposition parties slammed the bill as a pre-election stratagem that would shift the financial burden to state governments, and many parliamentary debates on the subject have descended into shouting matches.

Before it collapsed, Lehman crossed the line with a stratagem that enabled it to hide $50 billion, according to a report on the bankruptcy released earlier this year by a court-appointed examiner.

"We want to defend our faith," one of them said, "against the stratagems that have been devised against it".

With the voluntary buyback deal in question, bankers are contemplating the use of sophisticated legal stratagems that could force investors to sell out at much lower prices.

These two resort to credibility-taxing stratagems that seem more appropriate to gung-ho high-school journalism students than hard-bitten newsmen.

Pursuant to this statute, courts have condemned commercial stratagems that constitute unreasonable restraints on competition, among them "tying arrangements" and "exclusive dealing" contracts.

Kissinger recalled in his memoirs that Sisco was "enormously inventive, with a talent for the stratagems that are the lifeblood of Middle East diplomacy, sometimes offering more solutions than there were problems".