Strong suit

Usage examples of trump.

What should I tellen of the royalty Of this marriage, or which course goes beforn, Who bloweth in a trump or in an horn?

Even to Hassell the Poles, who were threatened with imminent attack on trumped - up Nazi charges, were not supposed to ask questions.

He could discern that Kelk was holding a trump card that he had not yet played.

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In the meanwhile, anxious to preserve his influence with the border tribes, and to impress the Indian Government with the fact that he could be a powerful foe, he keeps Umra Khan as a trump card, to be played when the occasion arises.

CCC-IRU 205, had always held the trump cards of being able to override his control of all their equipment, including the modifications to his own body, and of having sole control of the thermite charge in the base of his skull that would blow his head off if he attempted to surrender or to otherwise seriously disobey the orders of the Command.

I know what you want, though, and if you will let me send back Trumper if I have the feeling I cannot bear him any longer in my lesson, I will do the drawings for you myself.

As for Trumper, I propose to deal with that youth in a manner which will stay with him for the rest of his days.

How would it be if I made some reason of my own not to send Master Trumper to you at all?

Beck of Kentucky, Randall and Woodward of Pennsylvania, Marshall of Illinois, Brooks, Wood, Potter, Slocum, and Cox, of New York, Kerr, Niblack, Voorhees, and Holman of Indiana, Eldridge of Wisconsin, Van Trump and Morgan of Ohio, unitedly presented a strong array of Parliamentary ability.

Fresh data trumped or bypassed the arteriosclerotic pyramids of power and information flow the Agency had erected, all quite automatically, following its standard crisis-management directives.

Finally, the attorney general lost his patience and issued an ultimatum, threatening to reveal to the world his trump card-the full details of their secret negotiations to slip Meredith into the university, a move that both men knew could destroy Barnett politically with his pro-segregation supporters.

In an age when assertion tends to overwhelm evidence, when claim so easily trumps fact, they know precisely where the breakpoints lie.

All they possessed, through a misreading of Kuhn, was a pseudo-attempt to trump normal science and replace it with their ideologically favorite reading of the Kosmos.

God, of course the Immies had been waiting for a chance like this, his two trump cards together in one place.