Meanings of strategem in English

Steinbrenner also loved the divide-and-conquer strategem to keep his employees on edge.

To be a blonde, pink, soft and delicate, is to be a strategem.

Thus Cooper's strategem of keeping his visitors in a lower, supplicative position was quite reversed.

Even so, he does not rush into the fray as he compounds strategem upon strategem.

Since he figured Tracy could be overcome by strategem, the sergeant bet on the other boxer.

Men are not easily taken by frontal assault; it is only strategem that can quickly knock them down.

Torn by patriotism and fatherly affection, Agamemnon resorted to a strategem to bring his daughter to the sacrifice.

Still by a strategem, he succeeded in quietly withdrawing his troops, and began the hazardous undertaking of re-enforcing Beauregard.

Blake was keen on strategem.

Justice Lang said given Love used the money received to pay his mortgage, he was also party to a dishonest strategem.

But Grimsby told him the strategem he had used, and assured him Lord Andrew had not been seen since the onset.

It was a cowardly strategem, for they knew that the two could not fight with the girl between them and their adversaries.

However, he would make the attempt by a strategem, could we be at all supported by succors from the Earl of Mar!

My first strategem was now hastily to continue the inspection of the room, which my friend had somewhat cursorily allowed me to begin.

The note was the continuation of a skillful strategem whereby the Princess sought, for the last two months, to fasten him with invisible bonds.

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.