Sentence examples for trap of the from inspiring English sources

"The trap of the permanent campaign is that you diminish statesmanship," Professor Gergen said.

The debris was stuck in the sediment trap of the sink's waste pipe.

The ads fell right into the trap of the press's bias for conflict.

Don't fall into the trap of the taking the most obvious advice.

I can walk a huge, fascinating landscape that extends beyond the tourist trap of the West End.

In this instance, we were trying to avoid the trap of the tax tail wagging the investment dog.

Abroad, it is not stuck in any humiliating trap of the sort that, in 1980, caught Jimmy Carter.

He called this dichotomy "a great trap of the twentieth century" — a false choice between the freedom of a consumer and the obligations of a citizen.

He said, "Those who did this act of violence fall into the trap of the people who want them to act that way".

My friend Alice warned me about this trap of the mind after she returned from nine days of silent meditation in the Berkshires.

But at a rally later in the week in Everett, Wash., it was hard to know whether she was joking, or had fallen into another trap of the Pacific Northwest.