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.”

  The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete

• “Which brings us to the second strategem – moving the goal posts.”

  An Amazing First Century

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Xavier L. Suarez: The Dos and Don'ts of Dealing With an Impasse

• “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.”

  Fictionaut: Biz One-Upmanship 101

• “After discovering her strategem, Mr. Prosser took his coat from the locker and shrugged it on.”

  Updike, John

• “It's just more of regular WSJ Opinion Page contributor Karl Rove's signature strategem, turn your opponents strengths into weakness.”

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• “You can find a description of this seriously twisted strategem buried deep in the bowels of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report.”

  The Huffington Post: Les Leopold: Is Corruption on Wall Street All in the Eyes of the Beholder?

• “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.”

  Archive 2008-03-01

• “I can just see myself using this strategem some Saturday night.”

  Fictionaut: Understanding the Female Brain

• “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.”

  Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories

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