Sentence examples for successful gambit from inspiring English sources

If so it has been a successful gambit.

But like any successful gambit, it's also created vulnerabilities.

If so it has been a successful gambit, with the owner stating, ahead of the weekend match at Sunderland: "The manager and the team have my full support".

The Plaza, like its newborn cousin across the park at 15 Central Park West, appears to be on track as a successful gambit in the fast-changing world of condominium sales.

Never ones to abandon a successful gambit no matter how cynical, four years later Republican strategists made sure to pull Rove's chestnut of a wedge issue out of mothballs just in time for the 2008 election.

WASHINGTON — The oil giant Shell filed suit in federal court in Alaska last week against a dozen environmental groups, employing a rare — and rarely successful — legal gambit in an effort to pre-empt anticipated legal challenges to its plans to begin exploration in the Arctic Ocean this summer.

But as successful as her gambit proved to be, the only way to stop the now-standard line of inquiry for long is for Wozniacki to win her first Grand Slam singles title.

Page A8 National SHELL FILES LAWSUIT OVER ARCTIC DRILLING The oil giant Shell filed suit in federal court in Alaska against a dozen environmental groups, employing a rare -- and rarely successful -- legal gambit in an effort to pre-empt anticipated legal challenges to its plans to begin exploration in the Arctic Ocean this summer.

This was 1932: In a successful Depression-era gambit to bring the still wealthy in the door, the Waldorf Astoria booked debutantes to sing, giving them dinner and $25 a week.

That is, if the gambit is successful.

If Adderton's gambit is successful, it may help his new service, which resells minutes from carrier Verizon Wireless under its own youth-oriented brand, gain attention and market share.