Sentences with phrase «stratagems of»

The future plans and stratagems of this cryptocurrency have been extensively mentioned in TRON's whitepaper and are meticulously distributed over the next five years i.e. until 2023.

In this country it takes some fortitude and smarts to stand up to the stratagems of the government.

Several date from the 1970s and 80s and have a lack of confidence typical of an art movement in its dotage, as Krasner assimilates the repetitions and mixed media stratagems of 1960s art, even borrowing from Warhol.

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.

In the light of these premises, the work of Chad Wys relates perfectly to the imagery of Jesse Draxler, since they are both deeply connected to the stratagems of visual communication and culture.

In Sura 9:5 it says «Fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.»

In later years King would describe Gandhian nonviolence as «merely a Niebuhrian stratagem of power.»

Only some Democrats, sensing the ship to be sinking, latched onto the stratagem of trying to «localize» their contests — not because the politics of 2010 really were local, but because they were not.

Was this also a stratagem of Satan?

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.

In it, Denis depicts, with her usual salaciousness and elusivity, the vindictive stratagem of a sailor whose brother has committed suicide and whose niece is the victim of a barbaric sexual assault that's left her broken.

Your stratagem of not charging anything on the card at all is a good idea, but even here, note that if the minimum payment required is, say, 10 % of the outstanding balance and that is exactly what you pay each month, you will still owe $ 296.55 at the end of 12 months, from which point on you will be charged 1.25 % per month, same as for purchases.

«hasn't hockey - stick quibbling become merely a particularly juvenile stratagem of climate - change denialism?»

A fan of * MORE * discourse: So hasn't hockey - stick quibbling become merely a particularly juvenile stratagem of climate - change denialism?

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Fired by greed and fed by naïveté, these stratagems gone awry offer essential reading for investors as well as students of history, psychology, and human nature.»

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.

Surah 9:5 — «fight and slay the non-Muslims wherever ye find them» and «seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); unless they repent»

In such a world honest teachers (if there were any) would be telling their students that a pretense of morality is merely a stratagem by which one gangster induces others to enter into temporary alliances, or cozens some gullible victim to lower his guard.

Domestic fallout is «permissible» not only because it is inevitable but also because it is desirable — especially where the selective release of «facts» or the currency of agency - favored ideas serves an ideological line or stratagem.

It is studied and examined as a stratagem rather than as a hallmark of character.

It is the belief of Christians, however, that entry into this battle leads men and women away from precisely these life - destroying habits and stratagems and toward a life that is open both to God and to their fellow men and women.

One man wrote this: «Our patience is improved, by bearing calmly the indignities he strives to load us with; our charity is enflamed by returning good for ill, and by pardoning and forgiving the injuries he does us; our prudence is increased by wisely managing ourselves in our demeanor, so as not to give him opportunity to wound us; our fortitude is strengthened by the manful repelling of scorns, and by giving occasions for the display of an undaunted courage in all our actions; our industry is strengthened and confirmed by watching all his attacks and stratagems; and by our contriving how we may best acquit ourselves in all our contests.»

His political biography shows the nature of his alignments: social disillusionment with both capitalism and Marxism; embracement of pacifism, and then the abandonment of it during the rise of American isolationism and European fascism in the 1930s; the championing of U.S. intervention in World War II and a cold war stratagem to contain Soviet power; and indictment of the pretensions of American messianism and scientism when the U.S. first intervened militarily in Viet Nam under John F. Kennedy.

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.

Paranoia is, among other things, a stratagem for avoiding that self - destruction by designing oneself as the grandiose hero who, against a hostile world, possesses the explanation of explanations that survives every doubt and denial.

Losing our life for others «is not a stratagem for getting what we want but the only manner of life available, now that, in Jesus, we have seen what God wants» (Resident Aliens).

We may remark in chapter 14 the reflection of Joab's deep devotion to David (14:1); the implication of the king's accessibility to his subjects (v. 4); the stratagem which Joab and the wise woman of Tekoa employ, strongly reminiscent of Nathan's parable (vv.

There are traps everywhere — «Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,» as Herbert says, «fine nets and stratagems.»

But the virtues of war are not truthfulness and straightforwardness; wars are largely run by stratagem and subtlety and subterfuge.

The Conference will give attending beverage import, wholesale and retail executives and owners a clear understanding of the industry by showcasing current data, successful stratagem and recent innovation being used by leading figures in the business.

Superb pitching by two great masters, airtight defensive baseball and the use of all the wiles and stratagems that either team possessed made the fifteen - inning contest yesterday merely a resumption of the hostilities between Washington and Philadelphia that raged for months last year.

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

Also that Gary Speed the Welsh manager for reasons that reason takes no account of, inexplicably kept the dynamic and elusive Gareth Bale out on the right throughout, when the surely obvious stratagem would have been to have run him on the left against a Chris Smalling still inexperienced as a right back, not least at international level.

Femininity was the method for creatively transforming female disadvantages into advantages, basically by doing what it took to form strategic alliances with men: enhancing women's appeal and sexual attractiveness with time - honored stratagems like ritual displays of female incompetence aimed at subtly propping up men's (occasionally less than secure) sense of masculine prowess.

Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no.

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

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.

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

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 invective today gets amplified and disseminated so rapidly that it assumes a public life of its own, and scientific spats become a reality show complete with egos, self - promotion, greed and Machiavellian stratagems dissected in blogs, on social media and on bulletin boards.

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.

One stratagem is to make stress management techniques part of your day - to - day life, thus avoiding stress sneaking up on you.

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Sometimes over-infatuated with its own meta stratagems though it may be, Kate Plays Christine's machinery of wheels is always cranking vigorously.

It's a coming - of - age stratagem that fits perfectly within Fincher's previous films and taps into films like «Taxi Driver,» «The Graduate,» and «A Clockwork Orange.»

The resource can be used as handout for self paced learning or as part of a guided learning stratagem.

Rep. John A. Boehner, R - Ohio, made one thing perfectly clear last week: Any attempt to move special education funding from the «discretionary» to the «mandatory» side of the federal budget, a stratagem designed to shield special education from the annual appropriations process, would be a deal breaker on the reauthorizing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

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

That was a stratagem that fell on deaf ears because you actually had to spend real dollars (rather than commission dollars), and you had to spend time out of the office.

It was and is a world of consultants and financial engineers, reapplying the same case study or stratagem they had used many times before.