Verb (used with object), : to be ensnared by lies; to ensnare birds. From Dictionary.com.
Wouldn't it be better if the delegates were held until they could counter possible super delegate ensnarement?. From Wordnik.com. [Report: Edwards Thinks Hillary Has Courted Him More Effectively] Reference
Bizot pulled out his Moleskine notebook and, with minimal ensnarement, unsnapped the elastic, and began to note. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Thief] Reference
Drug smugglers are getting back to business: After a couple months of going (even more) underground, America's drug smugglers have overcome their fear of ensnarement in the anti-terrorist net and are back at it. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: November 4, 2001 - November 10, 2001 Archives] Reference
Tenor Shaun Dixon, the 11th-hour replacement for a stricken Gwyn Hughes-Jones, used some of his range to considerable effect, but had neither the charisma needed for the Duke/President, nor the charm to explain Gilda's ensnarement by him. From Wordnik.com. [Rigoletto] Reference
While Cavalieri recognized that these “multitudes” of indivisibles must be unboundedly large, indeed was prepared to regard them as being actually infinite, he avoided following Galileo into ensnarement in the coils of infinity by grasping that, for the. From Wordnik.com. [Continuity and Infinitesimals] Reference
Today many in the world realize -- especially Third World countries realize -- how important the existence of the USSR has been for them and how the mere existence of that country became a check on the imperialist thirst for power, on the ensnarement of imperialist domination. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Gives Speech on Bay of Pigs Anniversary] Reference
Why Dr. Coles failed to grasp this is perhaps related to several other difficulties in his essay, aside from those already mentioned — to a confusion of theory with a retreat from reality; a reluctance to go beyond consciousness in his psychological understanding; and an ensnarement in a liberal ideology that grows out of and so perpetuates the established order. From Wordnik.com. [Psychohistory] Reference
It is life -- not any conventional way of life, or any ideal of life -- that interests Synge, so he escapes ensnarement in any of the questions of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Plays and Playwrights] Reference
He was more cruel than Prosper, rougher, necessarily more dramatic, but there was all the essence of the original drama, the ensnarement of a simple, direct mind by a complex and skillful one. From Wordnik.com. [The Branding Iron] Reference
Brian Krolicki told the Associated Press he is mulling a bid against Reid, an announcement that surely made Democrats guffaw because of Krolicki's ensnarement in a financial controversy soon after he left the state treasurer's office. From Wordnik.com. [Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines] Reference
Horkheimer and Adorno's work was that the Enlightenment established a form of instrumental reason that led, via capitalism, to the economic and ideological ensnarement of people in consumer culture, with its attendant values and logic. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
Border-State men, and of the Northern Copperheads and other Disunion and Pro-Slavery allies of the Rebels were forever weaving for the discouragement, perplexity and ensnarement, of the thoroughly loyal out-and-out Union men of the Land. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Conspiracy, Complete] Reference
He means not of an humble pliableness and subjection (for that should ease him from his fear of an ambitious ensnarement, and so were contrary to his intention), but of a sinful infirmity and ambition in the heart, which makes it fitter for him and others to be kept under the yoke than to govern. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
He that adviseth the Parliament to lay no burden of government upon ministers, because they have other work to do which will take up the whole man, and because of the fear of an ambitious ensnarement, is against the laying of any burden of corrective government upon ministers, so much as in a prudential way. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
But Mr Coleman adviseth the Parliament, &c.; therefore the consequence in the proposition is necessary, unless he will say that it is agreeable to the rules of prudence to lay upon them more work besides that which will take up the whole man, or to commit that power unto them which is like to prove an ambitious ensnarement. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
Commons, divers particulars, which being justly excepted against, and he undertaking a vindication, yet he hath receded from them, or not been able to defend them, as that concerning two co-ordinate governments in one kingdom; and his argument concerning the fear of an ambitious ensnarement in ministers, these being by me infringed, he hath not so much as offered to make them good. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
In fact, with the exception of their ensnarement argument, their defense to infringement appears to have been wholly based on an attempt to obscure, evade, or minimize the Federal Circuit’s construction of the patent-in-suit the ‘678 patent. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Well, but suppose now the same corruption to be in other men’s hearts, that they are in great danger of an ambitious ensnarement if they be trusted with government, is this corruption only in the hearts of ministers, or is it in the hearts of all other men?. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
So no ensnarement here. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Goose -- Same as Duck; (catch one) ensnarement. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
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