Stratagems
in example sentence
He wearied his brain in devising clever
stratagems
; a moment later, he felt them to be absurd; he was in short extremely wretched, when two struck from the clock tower.
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The policy, reminiscent of terrorist stratagems, of bombing civilians in order to force the hands of their leaders will only strengthen the radicals and boost their popular support.
A great deal of attention has been paid to the
stratagems
of John Bolton, the fiercely anti-UN diplomat whom President Bush recently appointed US ambassador to the UN, and rightly so.
In Budapest, Wallenberg exploited every available contact, resorting to shady tricks, bribes, and other
stratagems
to save as many people as possible from the Holocaust.
After Latin America’s so-called pink tide – roughly from 2000 to 2015 – many of the left’s emblematic leaders were voted out of power, or resorted to various authoritarian
stratagems
in order to remain in control.
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