1.   These questions are often an opening gambit for a negotiation.

2.   These questions are often an opening gambit for a negotiation.

3.   As an opening gambit for the visit, Albright took Ivanov to dinner Tuesday night at Les Pinasse, a French restaurant at the St. Regis Hotel.

4.   As their opening gambit, Clinton and his aides are challenging the Republican plan to wipe out the deficit in seven years.

5.   Delvoye, as an opening gambit, has proposed the airless, hermetically sealed notion of food and its preparation as the ultimate absurdity.

6.   Flirting is the opening gambit in a continuing series of negotiations at every step of the way in courtship.

7.   Frost National Bank in San Antonio sent a warning to other banks after it learned of an incident that sounded like the opening gambit of a fraud scheme.

8.   He strongly suggested that it was merely the opening gambit in long-term commercial arrangements between Beijing and Western Europe to the likely exclusion of the United States.

9.   In his opening gambit, Powell, the secretary of state-designate, gave a sense of both continuity and a break with the Clinton administration.

10.   Investors seemed to see the bid as merely an opening gambit in what might become a more expensive exercise.