Sentences with word «stratagem»

She began painting large canvases using techniques inspired by artists such as Josef Albers and Bridget Riley and made use of various stratagems of Op Art.

From devising stratagems for online dating to dealing with conflict in a respectful manner, Anita's therapy practice instructs clients on proven methods to making deep connections.

While the immediate assertion of gratifying stratagems in Halo Wars 2 provides various new perspectives, Jensen and Hope focus on the unique identity that the game embraces in more subtle ways.

The financial asset trading marketplace isn't a safe place for the average investor to attempt to get better returns with more active but necessarily more expensive investing stratagems which usually will lead to inferior returns.

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To get Bermuda grass to grow, Kenichi devised stratagems straight out of Stalag 17.

The movie has Johnson, who lifts the script above its conventional cat - and - mouse stratagems with his buoyant wiseacre timing.

As time passes, she and her friends (Kathryn Hahn, Annie Parisse) use increasingly ruthless stratagem aimed at sending him scampering, but Ben's advertising co-workers (Thomas Lennon, Adam Goldberg) persuade him to hold out to win his wager.

The openings for such stratagems, though, may narrow.

All normal expectations, and the clever stratagems of the prudent, are baffled.

All of the above was a clever and ultimately successful stratagem to co-opt one of his likely opponent's best arguments.

And the movie has Johnson, who lifts the script above its conventional cat - and - mouse stratagems with his buoyant wiseacre timing.

The theory has also been viewed as providing a pedagogical stratagem — namely, to teach content by tapping all of the intelligences.

When an investment fund company decides to compete with much lower cost investing funds rather than with higher cost actively managed investing stratagems, then that investment fund company will usually keep competing on much lower cost investor funds.

Large Scale Stratagems, build on the mechanic from the last iteration of Empires, as allies temporarily leave the battlefield, making way for the title's most consummate attacks, which are often regulated by a cool down timer.

It's a simple upgrade system and sometimes a frivolous endeavor as I would find myself with skill points I didn't quite know where to spend, or new Stratagems I wasn't interested in using.

Rather than a sprawling map where you forge an Empire the largest the world will ever see, you team - up and pit your creative stratagem against other players in a 10v10 MOBA (Multiplayer online battle arena, a mouthful, I know).

The official account of a two - day conference on climate change influentials held years earlier in 2012, the book details greens leaders exploring potential stratagems for the destruction of fossil fuel companies.

• Correcting sucking problems, stopping the use of artificial nipples (handout # 5, Using a Lactation Aid, and # 8, Finger Feeding) and other stratagems.

Allowing for mock rehearsing and a range of procedural and literate stratagems then further assessment could be ascertained by the media influences to entice the parties» considerations by way of public demands.

Monomaniacal focus on a single goal is the ultimate success stratagem; and a pattern found in everyone from Edison to Einstein, and Manning to Mantle.

Not surprisingly, in the auto sector, where the investment is large and failure can be very costly, the Japanese have made great gains in market share; but trends in other sectors — in retailing, for instance, where labor is imposed on customers through self - service stratagems — a quality orientation seems less obviously rewarding.

This style of «nontariff barrier» — a protectionist stratagem the U.S. has long condemned in other countries — is designed to reduce the relative cost of cars manufactured in the U.S., by American workers, the officials said.

Rather than suggest a chainlike progression» which is a liberal stratagem meant to ease the skeptic's acceptance of the whole series of cases» Weigel should have stressed the disjunctions in these cases.

So long as there were compromise stratagems, from the Missouri Compromise of 1820 to the Compromise of 1850 — «compromise» is a metaphor of speaking, it should be noted — there was some hope.

Surely there is something in this speech that can not be captured by political pragmatism or dismissed as a political stratagem.

And crucially, while drinking at a bar with Harry Crane, he finds that he has been out of the loop on the big - tobacco scheme being plotted by Jim Cutler and Lou — a Machiavellian stratagem intended not only to land a big account, but also to push Don out of SC&P, since Don's past antics have made him toxic to tobacco companies.

As many countries around the world are revising their communication and information structures, the leading stratagem seems to be «more market, less state» and the buzzword is «deregulation».

The missionary stratagem of withholding information is exposed by quoting page 9 of the «stake mission handbook» published by the Mormons: «The standard missionary discussions, when they are taught by the spirit, lead investigators carefully and systematically to a knowledge of these truths.

Staying on top of fundamentals, developing a risk management stratagem and executing the plan... all off this is challenging, time - consuming and often overwhelming.

He says no thank you, sir, but he could not at this time reveal the special concomitants of his team's 65 — 64 upset of the Bearcats in mid-February, possibly because a coach would be a fool to share such a good thing and possibly because secret stratagems for beating Cincinnati have been losing for years.

The knight, the most exquisite piece in our most exquisite game, is frequently the key to memorable stratagems, and the chess world should have paused that day in mute tribute.

Moanino stratagem!

Never again should public servants be permitted to pursue such a self - interested stratagem.»

The latest polling intelligence on how voters are actually reacting to the endless speeches and stratagems comes in the form of a poll from Survation published in today's Daily Record.

The possibility of Clinton's characteristic stratagem — deny, deny, deny — was foreclosed quickly.

In case we are unable to fix the economy by latest 2018 before 2019 general elections, which is likely to happen being our lacks of adequate stratagem to move the nation forward but backwardness upon propaganda, continuous emptied promises and blame games is our strong tools that we are strategically utilizing in brainwashing the gullible and uninformed Nigerians.

Any number of thrillers or action movies should convince us that the first and most important stratagem in defeating an enemy is getting inside his fortress or camp.

But Bone's most extraordinary stratagem was not the way she toyed with her captors, it was the way she held sway over her self — the dogged maintenance of her own sanity.

Mayor, a classical folklorist, recounts in lively, sometimes darkly comic detail the diabolical stratagems devised by devious warriors for tactical ends: arrows dipped in toxins; jewel - encrusted urns booby - trapped with plague - laden garments; and a host of dirty tricks involving snakes, stinging beetles, and venomous frogs.

Damona's can - do attitude inspires singles to take action, and her experienced dating stratagems can change the course of their love stories in a hurry.