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Just as he finished congratulating himself on his innocent ruse he was bumped hard by one of his opponents.

Were this an ongoing ruse, we would not be able to explain this to you due to the Rules of Engagement.

After receiving the brown envelope from his broker, he would divide the money between team-mates in on the ruse.

Some Gazans fear it is a ruse to lull them into a sense of false security before Israel's tanks roll back and try again to topple Hamas.

Taxis are a common ruse for a scam. Never get into a cab unless you're sure it's reputable, and always agree on a price beforehand.

Wang Xiaodong confessed in an interview with the US'' Time magazine that the book''s title is a bit of a ruse.

For the first time, it struck her as a ruse, or that he said it so that she would not think of asking for things.

It was that old coal-stealing ruse of his practised once too often.

In fact this was just a ruse to ensure the participants couldn't physically see the other people they were talking to.

You are always excluded from this loop by the ruse that you were not legally allowed to participate.

That was just a ruse, to get you to click the link.

"This is a ruse, " she said of the campaign against illegal schools. "Let's face it, they just want to elbow us out of the city. "

This posing at the piano and over the album was only a little ruse adopted by way of precaution.

It was all a ruse: Palpatine was in fact Darth Sidious, and Dooku was his apprentice.

Couldn't all this talk about Service to Self and Service to Others just be a ruse to make it simpler for them to occupy the earth?

they resorted to a ruse: They went as a delegation whose donkeys were loaded with worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.

His rediscovered conscience, it would seem, was but a ruse to get closer to the Rebellion, where Solo resided.

The EMH thus combines a trivial truth with a significant falsehood and therefore may simply function as a ruse.

But the ruse became increasingly difficult to maintain as the company's fortunes dwindled.

After all it was a ruse of the Thenardiers to obtain money. Cosette was not ill.

They believed the ruse would deter the cats as tigers rarely attack a person from the front.

Such a ruse relied on credible monetary policy in both Britain and America.

So Wall Street hit on a ruse : it took borrowers who in normal times would have been subprime and dressed them up as "mid-prime" .

While the C. I. A. ruse hurt, Dr. Bhutta said, he still believes that Pakistan will eliminate polio.

Then again it was probably a ruse to take the focus away from the players and their tame performance.

Libya has used a procedural ruse to force a vote without any substantial discussion of the scientific, technical or economic issues.

Looking reasonable, say cynics, is a ruse to discourage investment in shale reserves and alternative pipelines.

To put it bluntly, it's a ruse on the part of large scale interest groups for the future.

Imaginary enemies are a desperate ruse to provide the union with coherence.

Morgen: Because she's not working alone. They've used this ruse in a dozen local abductions.

Michael Ruse teaches the history and philosophy of science at Florida State University.

But to the world beyond Westminster, a ten-minute prime minister would surely seem a transparent and absurd ruse.

He's found out about the ruse, but his demands for an apartment haven't wavered.

But that too, it seems, was just another ruse.

Once they discovered this ruse, the Chinese buyers, already suspicious, became far more cautious in their dealings.

That is shameful, to be sure, and it has come to something when Mr McConnell's ruse looks attractive.

If an opponent controls a mountain and you control a plains, you may play Sivvi's Ruse without paying its mana cost.

This permits the thought that Brazil's plan is an elaborate ruse.

An offer to talk or just another ruse?

You're missing the point. These are revelations. . . and they're revealing the ruse.

It needs to be more than a re-election ruse.

The ruse worked, and 12 hours after he first hooked him, Grant pulled in a 50-pounder.

The beautiful falsehood and the pious ruse!

RUSE is set to refresh the strategy game genre.

I was confident that my invitation wasn't a kidnap ruse because it came from such a high level.

To feign frankness is a ruse of war.

Does it follow that one should keep silent about one's intention of education character, and act by ruse and subterfuge?

But my father loves to tease, so he kept the ruse up for some time, and after that night I never played the game again.

The ruse of inflicting an injury on oneself to win the confidence of the enemy

Ruse stresses the creation of a false impression:

Think up a ruse for getting into the cinema without paying

Strategic adjustment based on competitive environment-- Development ruse of SPC in new epoch

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Here is a ruse for the fray: You need no chariot or charioteer;

Yes, they can, and because of our ruse,