strategem
Example Sentences
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Enormously successful at first, this strategem had a fatal flaw.
From Salon ● May 8, 2016
Remarkably, a politician known for his caution has now bet his career, and the future of the U.S.-Israel alliance, on the same strategem.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2015
Thieu was considering a strategem under which he would simply ignore Paris and unilaterally propose to resign and turn power over to a six-man "government committee" that would hold new presidential elections in three months.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Kos, one of the twelve Greek Aegean islands seized by Italy during the Italo-Turkish war of 1912, there came last week news of an able ecclesiastical strategem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Few, however, gave any heed to his warnings: and Pisistratus, at length finding his schemes ripe for action, had recourse to a memorable strategem to secure his object.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Sir William Smith
