Whether his resignation was tendered because of petulance or careful stratagem, he now has a real measure of the Government's dependence on him. |
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It was a clever stratagem for defeating the tax proposals without incurring the popular odium for doing so. |
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Crad possessed not an inkling of the tact and stratagem of his father, and so their coming was long awaited. |
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But even if the calculated emollience is a stratagem, it confirms one of the most improbable features of his character. |
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Nor should workers in a particular country be pressurised, through this stratagem, into accepting poorer conditions. |
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How pray tell have we humans managed to put a plethora of dune buggies on Mars but are apparently unable to come up with an effective stratagem for killing roaches? |
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The kidnapper cannot escape the jurisdiction of the court by such a stratagem. |
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Yet Laurier continued to procrastinate:Â Â To get him into a corner, Hutton devised a stratagem that would cost him his job. |
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The real reason may have been to avoid a vote next year, when the economy could be even weaker. The stratagem might fail. |
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Nevertheless, selling below cost is a commercial stratagem which will, sooner or later, be tolerated by consumers. |
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It needs a stratagem defined in terms of a number of general principles on which we all agree. |
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But to hold that it makes consent to intercourse disappear seems like a clever lawyer's stratagem to reconstruct the real world. |
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Some people of Korean origin in Japan have adopted this stratagem, as have some Twa in order to keep their positions as public servants. |
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Now the cynics are rubbing their hands with glee at having come up with a no-lose stratagem. |
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It is a classic stratagem of the European Commission to exploit such a crisis in the cause of closer European integration. |
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They must be prepared to look with new eyes at every programme, every methodology, every traditional stratagem. |
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The words social dumping' are hissed like an evil incantation, denoting one more wicked stratagem from Brussels. |
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The fact that cotton is identified as the prime target reveals the stratagem being used. |
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This approach emphasizes stratagem and maneuver over firepower and seeks to set the terms of conflict even before the opponent is aware conflict exists. |
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The best-remembered moment of Max's emulation of Fairbanks's balletic athleticism is his deft and lethal stratagem when surrounded by a ring of swords. |
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In any case, the stratagem might not work. |
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Of course, we now all know that the justices of the Supreme Court refused to be used in this political stratagem and pointedly declined to declare ex cathedra the unconstitutionality of marriage. |
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The principle holds out no real interest for the future, at least until it no longer appears simply a clever stratagem for a specific situation, and thus lacking in universal scope for un unlimited period. |
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This was the stratagem of leftists everywhere for a long, long time. |
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The investigation revealed that the stratagem was intended to conceal the illicit origin of the funds which were generated by organised tax evasion, for which the couple was well known. |
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Discovering their location from some peace envoys they had sent to him, he lured them into battle near the Tsibritsa by a stratagem. |
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Sir, there was never, since England was England, such a stratagem and mask made to deceive England withal as this is of the treaty of peace. |
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This stratagem was used for not to be detected at the time. |
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Nor is it a Commission stratagem to secure more powers or more resources. |
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If the Canadian certificate contained certain optional information provided for in the process, such as the number of stones over two carats in size, this sort of stratagem would no longer be possible. |
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Finally, Odysseus asks Demodocus to return to the Trojan War theme and tell of the Trojan Horse, a stratagem in which Odysseus had played a leading role. |
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It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. |
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