In follow-up letters, "GNS Customer Service," used stratagems lifted directly out of the third grader's guide to hardball, including not-so-subtle threats — in this case, the threat of legal action as well as blame shifting.
Using rhetorical scare tactics, proponents for and against are not shy about disrobing a "more of them means less for us" stratagem.
We must on this occasion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them".
We must on this occasion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them" (in Parkman, 1886, p. 39).
Thomas marched to meet them and planned to use a stratagem to outwit his opponents: his men, ostensibly demoralized, would pretend to flee, and when the imperial army broke ranks to pursue them, they would turn back and attack.
Clinton's two nominees for the Supreme Court won easy confirmation, but that wasn't because of any principled Republican reluctance to use undemocratic stratagems to thwart him.
Mr. Di Teresa said Patrick Adams, a manager at Berger Funds, also used this stratagem before he left Berger to start his own fund company.
I suppose that may count as news, but barely: the American people have already demonstrated that they are willing to elect to office men who all used one stratagem or another to avoid going to Vietnam.
Moses Narboni, for instance, believed that al-Ghazâlî used a stratagem to teach philosophy at a time when it was, according to Narboni, officially prohibited.
A federal court had ordered the county to open its registration to all regardless of race, but each time Jimmie Lee and his grandfather went to the courthouse, the registrar used one stratagem or another to prevent their becoming voters.
