Sentence examples for a decoy for from inspiring English sources

Patton wasn't quite fired, though a lot of people wanted him to be, in part because Eisenhower needed him as a decoy for D-Day.

Fearing that Captain Foss's group was a decoy for other Americans hidden in the clouds, the Japanese returned to their bases on Bougainville and Munda, leaving Henderson Field untouched.

As General Petraeus prepares to go in front of a congressional committee, it is worth remembering that the military are being used as a decoy for an administration trying to avoid responsibility for the ever-evolving disaster.

So it changed course, picking Saturday in Virginia On Friday, when Mr. Ryan left home through the back door, his sister-in-law stayed behind as a decoy for his wife, who had already left with the couple's children.

He said the decoy receptor method has been proved to work, in the case of two drugs that act as a decoy for the protein that causes inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis, but that it remained to be seen how well the anti-BLyS antibody would work in lupus patients.

That seventh-minute charge by Lomu set up the game's opening try for Robert Sidoli and afterwards the 63-times capped All Black said it would be fine by him if he continued to act as a decoy for others to profit.

In contrast, mice deficient for osteoprotegerin (OPG, a decoy receptor for RANKL) developed thymic hyperplasia and had more mature mTECs [ 20].

This further reinforces the concept that IL-13Rα2 is a receptor for Chi3l1 and more than just a "decoy" receptor for IL-13.

A professional Italian reviewer describes the Blue Öyster Cult name on the cover as "only a commercial decoy" for an Albert Bouchard solo album.

In vivo mouse models have shown a pro-fibrotic role for IL-13Rα2 [ 17], classically thought of as a decoy receptor for IL-13.

Osteoprotegerin (OPG) acts as a decoy receptor for the "Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor-κB Ligand" (RANKL), which is an essential factor for bone remodeling.