(n.) An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.
Example Sentences:
(1) In nearly every case husband and wife agreed on the choice of stratagem, a majority of the couples forming the sample opting for disassociation.
(2) This article contains a potpurri of surgically related stratagems, alternative techniques, and philosophies.
(3) The ready selection of rCD4-resistant variants has obvious relevance for rCD4-based therapeutic stratagems.
(4) Skills we develop in the clinical setting can be combined with practice audit to produce the ideal management stratagem.
(5) He suggests that this is the dynamic that drives unthinking partisan allegiance ("What's most distinctive about the current presidential election and our political culture [is] … how unconditionally so many partisans back their side's every edict, plaint and stratagem"), as well as numerous key political frauds, from Saddam's WMDs to Obama's fake birth certificate to Romney's failure to pay taxes for 10 years.
(6) Abraham also posited an alternative stratagem for government to cash in on Channel 4, which is allowing it the financial freedom to invest and grow the wider UK creative economy.
(7) The hypothesis of asymmetric otolith function asserts that physiological or anatomical differences in the two sides of the bilateral gravity-sensing otolith apparatus of the inner ear may be well compensated on Earth, but when exposed to novel gravitational states, the prior compensatory stratagems may be ineffective, leading to unstable vestibular responses and causing the phenomenon of space motion sickness.
(8) The model stipulates that given exposure to sustained aversive maternal control and a maternal communication style which is subtle and devious, the child comes to adapt with approach, stratagem-based behaviours and heightened vigilance for evaluative information (i.e.
(9) The use of a differential probing stratagem, based on the hybridisation of specific oligonucleotides to either pUC13 polylinker or unaltered PYK 3' UTR sequences, allowed for discrimination between mutant (plasmid borne) and wild-type (chromosomal) PYK transcripts.
(10) Recent pharmacological studies utilizing human intracranial artery preparations have addressed two distinct therapeutic stratagems.
(11) His inspired stratagem is to embrace the national rugby team, the darlings of the formerly ruling Afrikaners and, for most nonwhite South Africans, a symbol of brutal and humiliating repression.
(12) The implications of this observation pertain to toxicity effects when EDTA is incorporated into ocular drug products for stability purposes, or novel stratagems for improving ocular bioavailability of topically applied drugs are employed.
(13) Though the cabinet had rejected such a stratagem - dubbed Big Pines - in December 1981, Oxford professor Avi Shlaim suggests Eitan and Sharon aimed to implement it in stages, via Peace for Galilee.
(14) It is proposed that these changes in surface antigenicity constitute an evasive stratagem used by the parasite to deter the host from mounting a potentially lethal inflammatory response.
(15) This paper presents a series of stratagems designed to minimize the potential psychological problems of children who require dermatological surgery.
(16) The technical stratagems to model the nose are: (1) alignment of the premaxilla and (2) anatomic placement of the alar cartilages with sculpturing of the overlying soft tissue.
(17) Rotating the detector in close apposition to the head has required various stratagems to avoid detector-shoulder contact: the selective reduction of camera shielding, the use of long bore collimators, and the 30 degrees angulation of the camera head for slant hole collimation.
(18) In public, Walker employs moderate, conciliatory rhetoric, while privately, he gushes over more anti-union stratagems to come.
(19) These concepts may be important in designing treatment stratagems for intracellular pathogens.
(20) The slower antigenic change found for NA further supports the potential for NA-specific infection-permissive immunization as a useful stratagem against influenza.
Trickery
Definition:
(n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the party was left confused and damaged when the voting booths closed and both camps immediately made accusations of ballot fraud, trickery and irregularities, lodging complaints with the party's internal election monitoring body.
(2) 4.13am GMT 90 mins +3 Neagle tries a little trickery wide right, trying to end his interest in this series with a decisive touch, but his short through ball is overhit.
(3) This parliamentary trickery can be traced to another controversial Westminster moment: the government's determination to introduce 42-day detention.
(4) Md Shamsuddoha, a campaigner with Justice and Equity Bangladesh, said: "Channelling climate funds through the World Bank is a trickery of the British government to weaken the argument for channelling funds through the United Nations or national funds.
(5) Four completions, one spiked football, and then, on first-and-goal at the one-yard line, a wonderful piece of trickery, as he gestured furiously at his team-mates to run to the line for a spike play, but instead leaped over the line for a touchdown.
(6) Holding hands prevents participants from disrupting the trickery.
(7) 2.50am GMT 10 mins First look at Rivero trying a little trickery by the touchline, and then getting caught by Traore as he tries another little flick forward.
(8) But also increasingly we are seeing people with learning disabilities becoming targeted for forced marriage through coercion or trickery in order to extract their finances or accommodation or even for passports or visas.” Forced marriage is a deeply malign cultural practice – but it’s not the only one | Deborah Orr Read more Respond Chief Executive Noelle Blackman worries that the nuance of the cases they see is not allowed for by the new legislation: “The new Health and Care act promotes advocacy for people with learning disabilities, but we are concerned that this is likely to come from generic advocacy agencies without the specialised knowledge that would be needed.” Let’s hope, as Khan does, that this first case to be prosecuted, “will send out a very strong message”.
(9) He added of his rival’s campaign: “They have a long record they’ve earned in South Carolina of engaging in this kind of trickery and impugning the integrity of whoever their opponent is to distract the attention.
(10) It is pushing the campaign off the front of the news locally.” The election has been a long, brutal process and people are much more interested in the World Series John Grabowski, Case Western Reserve University Grabowski cautioned against notions of baseball as morally pure escapism, noting the sport’s own history of “chicanery and trickery”, but added: “Nonetheless it’s linked to what America is supposed to be about – the field of dreams.
(11) Stoke were tormented, unable to match his acceleration and bewitched by his trickery.
(12) It's thinking not dissimilar to one of those terrifying internet male pickup artists – all buzzwords and trickery, although I've never known any of them to follow up their attempts to seduce with a bastardised version of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech ("I want to see a Britain where no matter where you come from, what god you worship, the colour of your skin, what community you belong to, you can get to the top in television, the judiciary, armed services, politics, newspapers.")
(13) Lamela scored three goals in the first half – extending his fine record in this competition – and Tom Carroll’s dogged trickery added a fourth late on‚ his first for the club.
(14) The embarrassed hospital has condemned the hoax as "pretty deplorable" and "journalistic trickery".
(15) O'Neill, who continues to pursue the Wolves centre-forward Steven Fletcher but has accepted that the midfielder or left back Kieran Richardson remains determined to leave the Stadium of Light, is desperate to add "pace and trickery" to his team along with a striker and a left-back.
(16) I can easily generate a Man City fan's revulsion about Sir Alex Ferguson's surly shtick, strategic trickery, his bloody, battering success.
(17) The deja vu will stab at Atlético when they also reflect on Griezmann firing a penalty against the crossbar early in a second half when Yannick Carrasco changed the match with his pace, trickery and directness.
(18) 2.57am GMT 45 mins +2 Luis Gil shows a little trickery in the box down the right again, but Ricketts dives on his ball in towards the near post.
(19) Further down the nave, another marker signals the best vantage point for a second bit of trickery.
(20) True, there was a big warning flashed up over the spending cuts to come, but in general the IFS did not find much evidence of trickery.