strategem
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Enormously successful at first, this strategem had a fatal flaw.
From Salon ● May 8, 2016
Remarkably, a politician known for his caution has now bet his career, and the future of the U.S.-Israel alliance, on the same strategem.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2015
Thieu was considering a strategem under which he would simply ignore Paris and unilaterally propose to resign and turn power over to a six-man "government committee" that would hold new presidential elections in three months.
From Time Magazine Archive
The strategem did not please the big crowd in the opera house.
From Time Magazine Archive
A strategem planned by Hermocrates and Nicias' superstitious terrors delayed the departure long enough to enable the Syracusans to secure the passes in the interior.
From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb
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