The stratagem is clearly one of seeking to minimize the confrontational atmosphere that seems to rise automatically between proponents and opponents of agricultural liberalization.

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Republicans in Colorado may come to regret the 11th-hour stratagem.

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This makes the Conservative credibility the key feature of this stratagem.

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It is a subtle stratagem, working on the assumption that by associating itself with a worthy cause, the party will enhance its reputation with the public.

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The gesture looked like a suicide attempt, but it was a stratagem: a drama designed to get her sister to take the kids out of the house, so that she could talk to her husband alone.

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Beijing will, by one stratagem or another, keep the banks afloat.

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Call it the pig-in-a-poke stratagem.

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The rising anger against the shambles in Brazilian football means that such a stratagem might work.

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Moreover, there appears to be another stratagem that exporters extensively used in December, the round-tripping of goods through special trade areas and bonded warehouses to earn substantial value-added-tax rebates.

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In 1823 Wainewright hatched a stratagem which, he believed, would enable him to clear his debts and get on with the serious business of living like a gentleman.

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