Stratagem

But the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has maintained that the insistence by the EC to forbid the guarantor system is a stratagem to suppress the voter registration exercise in some parts of the country.

As consumers we have the choice to support retailers who are not in collusion with this abberant stratagem.

As Speaker, he brought stability to the House, managing the high and low tides of boisterous men and women with organized stratagem.

Fixed some stratagem beams using incorrect color-coding.

This Stratagem works like many others in —players must input a directional button code and then toss an item in their hand for the player to be summoned to that drop position.

India, by inducting the INS Arighat in the Arihant class is aiming to enhance such capabilities through incorporating additional submerged platforms as part of its deterrence patrol stratagem.

But even if he did, it would be a short-term stratagem; the underlying problems would remain.

It is an internalised stratagem to avoid ostracism, taunts or even physical attacks.

The Constitution does not allow a president to run for more than two consecutive terms, and Mr. Putin has already used the stratagem of switching with his prime minister, Dmitri A. Medvedev, from 2008 to 2012.

As a result, the government resorted to a stratagem.

By this stratagem, he convinced the Carthaginian commanders Mago and Hasdrubal Gisco that they could expect the Romans to hold the centre of their line.

Discovering their location from some peace envoys they had sent to him, he lured them into battle near the Tsibritsa by a stratagem.

Even something as simple as a squash ball aimed at that point (" The Sontaran Stratagem ") or contact by the heel of a shoe (" The Last Sontaran ") is capable of incapacitating them temporarily.

In " The Sontaran Stratagem " (2008), Donna Noble displays an aptitude for piloting the TARDIS under the Doctor's guidance, much to the Doctor's apparent surprise.

It would not be until The Sontaran Stratagem that General Staal would show that the baton can fire an orange beam that could stun the target.

Judi Dench and Michael Gambon performed the Mornington Crescent drama The Bromley by Bow Stratagem.

Malatesta arrives to explain the stratagem, but Norina cuts him off and hands him the letter, which he reads aloud: Ernesto has announced his intention to leave Rome, and Europe altogether.

Metaphorically a "Trojan Horse" has come to mean any trick or stratagem that causes a target to invite a foe into a securely protected bastion or place.

Smelling a stratagem (rightly), he stayed put.

Some modern editions add the apostrophe (some with an s also), some omit it; and some make a compound with a hyphen: The Beaux-Stratagem.