Abe s Asian Gambit

Colombia s Peace Gambit

China s Stability Gambit

Erdoğan s Kurdish Gambit

But the Fed s policy gambit has taken the US down the wrong road.

The Third Plenum s use of decisive to anchor a market based approach is a similar gambit.

It is unlikely that Musharraf s latest gambit will succeed, as his popular support is at its lowest ebb.

Indeed, his latest gambit is an effort to sell Ukraine s transit pipelines to Russia s Gazprom in exchange for cut rate gas.

But the gambit didn t work, and there was clearly a behind the scenes power struggle between different parts of the regime.

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China s opening gambit to compel the international community to recognize the existence of a dispute has been successful, and portends further disturbance of the status quo.

India s former ambassador to Afghanistan, Vivek Katju, is confident that Afghan President Hamid Karzai s anger at the Taliban s gambit in Qatar will not delay negotiations for long.

As serious as these concerns may be, they overlook what could well be the greatest flaw in the Fed s unprecedented gambit an emphasis on short term tactics over longer term strategy.

Once it became clear that his gambit would fail, Obasanjo found a compromise he named a man he trusted, Yar Adua, a little known northern governor and devout Muslim, as his preferred successor.

Putin s initiative turned out to be a diplomatic lifeline, as Obama s gambit of seeking Congressional approval for an attack on Syria looked certain to fail, which would have dented his authority as America s commander in chief.