| It was a clever stratagem for defeating the tax proposals without incurring the popular odium for doing so. |
| He perceived with dismay that the stratagem of his defence had given Anne away. |
| 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? |
| But to hold that it makes consent to intercourse disappear seems like a clever lawyer's stratagem to reconstruct the real world. |
| Yet Laurier continued to procrastinate: To get him into a corner, Hutton devised a stratagem that would cost him his job. |
| The kidnapper cannot escape the jurisdiction of the court by such a stratagem. |
