Sentence examples for the stratagem from inspiring English sources

The stratagem succeeded.

The stratagem worked.

In any case, the stratagem might not work.

Incredible as it may seem, the stratagem worked.

One element of the stratagem might have been fixed, but an array of other variables went unnoticed.

Veeck, who died in 1986, would have approved of the stratagem copped to by the Boston Red Sox this week.

Even as we cooperate with Beijing, the stratagems of the Chinese state periodically remind us of its undemocratic nature.

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

The stratagems — fake crop circles; dressing as aliens and putting on a show for the camera crews; and, apparently, musical production numbers — grow desperate, much like the humor.

The idea of the "stratagems of Satan," as developed by a 16th-century fortress engineer, Giacomo Aconcio, had its roots here.

Garry Spence, Mrs Marcos's chief defence counsel, who persisted in wearing his Wyoming cowboy hat throughout, deployed the stratagems of chivalry in his client's cause.