Sentence examples for through treachery from inspiring English sources

Through treachery and corruption, Flem Snopes gathers power in Frenchman's Bend, Miss.

The plot depicts the tiny Spartan force repeatedly outmanoeuvring the invaders and being defeated after a three-day stand-off only through treachery.

It also demonstrated once again the ability of the government's enemies to reach into even the most secure bastions of the capital, whether through treachery or frontal assaults, and to carry out a rising number of carefully selected assassinations.

The Persians captured Martyropolis through treachery in 589, but that year the stalemate was shattered when the Persian general Bahram Chobin, having been dismissed and humiliated by Hormizd IV, raised a rebellion.

Some were amazed at virgin Minerva's fatal gift, and marvel at the horse's size: and at first Thymoetes, whether through treachery, or because Troy's fate was certain, urged that it be dragged inside the walls and placed on the citadel.

Monty loses everything through the treachery of a secretary.

4 Who suffered terminally through the treachery of Mir Jafar? 5 Whose state of undress was inappropriately ridiculed by Churchill?

Johnson learned of this treachery through eavesdropping conducted by U.S. intelligence agencies.

If this researcher is right, the listener's annoyance, through some subtle treachery of the subconscious mind, is transformed into a desire, resulting the sale of This Cigarette, That Soap powder... View Article By Alan Burdick By Larissa MacFarquhar By Phil Klay By Amanda Petrusich.

If this researcher is right, the listener's annoyance, through some subtle treachery of the subconscious mind, is transformed into a desire, resulting the sale of This Cigarette, That Soap powder... View Article By John Cassidy By Atul Gawande By Lidija Haas By Alan Burdick.

Historians think that Thored was either killed fighting these Scandinavians, or else survived, but became disgraced through defeat or treachery.