Stratagem

Can regulators distinguish this kind of stratagem from the case of fair and justified engineering decisions that happen to cause a little temporary jitter? ❋ Unknown (2006)

If this adjustment in stratagem saved the lives or mission of just one crew, I would be thankful to God. ❋ Unknown (1944)

The famous Duguesclin is said to have taken the town by stratagem from the English. ❋ Louisa Stuart Costello (1834)

The word "Strategy" is a military term derives from the Greek word "stratagem" which means ❋ Unknown (2009)

The stratagem is related by the author of the Gesta Francorum, the monk Robert Baldric, and Raymond des ❋ Unknown (1206)

Our 'stratagem' -- I have always liked the word, ever since I read _Tales of a Grandfather_, which I thought a great take-in, as it's just a history book, neither more nor less, and the only exciting part is when you come upon stratagems -- succeeded. ❋ Mrs. Molesworth (1880)

It's a typical Carter stratagem, which is nothing less than a view of the world where musical lines, like individual lives, intersect at changing speeds in endlessly changing contexts and sometimes, maybe only for a moment, come together. ❋ Unknown (2008)

To move from theory toward the concrete, for years in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, I've seen Anglo social workers go after certain Chicano families — do so as agents of county officials who have discovered that such a stratagem is a damn good way to intimidate activist Chicano migrants. ❋ Liszka, Jakob (1978)

The stratagem is a good one, and I dare say some hundreds of men will be added to the encamped army, while certain unconscious diplomatists are sipping their coffee, and complacently gazing at these fiery devices. ❋ John Auldjo (N/A)

Here, you see, is a marked case of an appropriation of another's property by a very adroit stratagem, which is fully justified by the Old Testament, and uncondemned by the New. ❋ Various (N/A)

When several such tricks had been played on the guards it became very risky, and often, when caught, a traveller resorted to stratagem, which is very diverting when afterwards described, but not so at a time when much depends on its success. ❋ Mary Antin (1915)

This part of the stratagem was the most difficult to accomplish. ❋ Edward Sylvester Ellis (1878)

"The stratagem was a good one, Demetrius," observed the grand vizier. ❋ Unknown (1846)

The Indians resort to another stratagem, which is, perhaps, even more successful. ❋ Unknown (1839)

I shall content myself with mentioning one instance, which the natives speak of as a well - known fact, and that is, the stratagem they have recourse to in order to catch the bareins, which are considerably too swift of foot for them. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

It had a "stratagem" to terminate his DA membership, and had acted in an irrational and capricious way. ❋ Unknown (2001)

When Darius fell, they had been spirited away with every kind of stratagem, their mothers taking it for granted that the new, barbarian King would have them strangled. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1981)

They are using every kind of stratagem to create confusion and misunderstanding. ❋ Unknown (1960)

Baldulf, so that he came within, with such kind of stratagem Baldulf came within. ❋ Layamon (N/A)