| It was a clever stratagem for defeating the tax proposals without incurring the popular odium for doing so. |
| Yet Laurier continued to procrastinate: To get him into a corner, Hutton devised a stratagem that would cost him his job. |
| Whether his resignation was tendered because of petulance or careful stratagem, he now has a real measure of the Government's dependence on him. |
| It needs a stratagem defined in terms of a number of general principles on which we all agree. |
| Nor should workers in a particular country be pressurised, through this stratagem, into accepting poorer conditions. |
| Some people of Korean origin in Japan have adopted this stratagem, as have some Twa in order to keep their positions as public servants. |
