Sentence examples for treacherous game from inspiring English sources

"It's a dangerous and treacherous game," one Democratic operative said.

It is a treacherous game on that ground.

Worst of all, they fail to enjoy spying as a treacherous game; they think they are saving the world, whereas the Brits know that, apart from Britain's dwindling interests, there's nothing to be saved, just the endless struggle itself, well or poorly joined.

Funding short-term while lending long has been a treacherous game for banks and other financial institutions in the postwar era, but at least they enjoyed a positive yield curve spread the vast majority of the time.

She persuades him to play a treacherous game: Xie must seduce the innocent and naïve Du Fenyu (Zhang Ziyi) and then dump her.

In the end, the lesson for long-term investors is to remain focused on what the companies are actually doing rather than getting caught up in Wall Street's treacherous earnings game.

The N.C.A.A. investigation comes as the Red Storm heads into a treacherous five-game stretch -- beginning tonight with No. 9 Syracuse (20-2) at Madison Square Garden.

Ms. Mirren's sorceress, for all her imperiousness, is a more benign and vulnerable figure than the typical male iteration of the character; she makes you all the more aware of the treacherous power games that took place before the play.

What makes her all the scarier is her refusal to acknowledge her complicity, even to herself, in treacherous sexual power games she initiates mostly out of boredom.

It is a treacherous stretch of games, but luckily for the Yankees, they are playing some of their best baseball of the season: they have won five of six games in this homestand.

The Jets are 3-4, with a treacherous schedule ahead: games against pesky Miami and at Seattle bookending a bye week, with a road meeting at the Rams after that.