Strategem

What other officers and crew the pinnace had does not appear, and we know nothing certainly of them, except the time for which they shipped; that some of them were fellow-conspirators with the Master (self-confessed), in the "strategem" to compel the SPEEDWELL'S abandonment of the voyage; and that a few were transferred to the MAYFLOWER. ❋ Azel Ames (1876)

Which brings us to the second strategem – moving the goal posts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You can find a description of this seriously twisted strategem buried deep in the bowels of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report. ❋ Les Leopold (2011)

It's just more of regular WSJ Opinion Page contributor Karl Rove's signature strategem, turn your opponents strengths into weakness. ❋ R_urell (2009)

The mayor followed that by threatening to veto the commission vote; this strategem is of doubtful legal validity, since the county commission is charged by law to resolve the impasse by simple majority. ❋ Xavier L. Suarez (2012)

Stephen Potter, a British humorist who has undeservedly faded into obscurity, is the father of "one-upmanship," a strategem for besting an opponent—somewhat unfairly—without actually cheating. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

After discovering her strategem, Mr. Prosser took his coat from the locker and shrugged it on. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My only implication about influence was that if Pullman had been inspired by Baum, he made more of the idea: his character's "strategem actually plays a role in the plot" while "Baum's scene is characteristic vaudeville [with] no consequences." ❋ Unknown (2008)

I can just see myself using this strategem some Saturday night. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Meantime I had the engineer of the locomotive blow his whistle loudly, so that the enemy might also learn that a train had come; and from the fact that in a few moments he began to give way before our small force, I thought that this strategem had some effect. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The only thing McCain can do if these trends continue is resort to the open deployment of some foul and debased strategem ... coughRacecough ... left over from the Democratic primaries. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It should be noted that avoiding rankism by seeking status and fame is the same strategem employed by victims of identity groups who sought to blend into the dominant group. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The album that Bob Dylan put out that was supposed to be "deliberately bad" -- "Self Portrait" -- was a strategem to scare away the political radicals and hipsters who thought they owned him back in 1970 or so. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

CH4 and CO2 Regulation are a strategem to give cover ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Obama campaign had to have had this gem of a strategem up their sleeve for weeks; months, perhaps. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That strategem somehow escaped the poohbahs of the Democraptic establishment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our convention was too good; the Clintons were too fiercely loyal to the Party, for that strategem to work. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Perhaps, it could be argued, his vote was a strategem to create markers to call in Republicans at a future date. ❋ Unknown (2008)