Sentence examples for a ruse devised to from inspiring English sources

This was a ruse devised to trap would-be Samaritans, rob an kill them.

State Comptroller Peter Franchot told The Diamondback, the University of Maryland's student newspaper, that the education argument for gambling is a ruse devised to interest "voters who want to do the right thing for kids, when it does nothing to bring in new dollars for education".

This "train tale" was simply a ruse devised by treasure hunters to distract from "what is really hidden underneath".

Still determined to defend the honor of his wife, Beauchamp devised a ruse to lure Sharp to Bowling Green.

Last April, with finals looming for both of them, Mr. Biberaj, who had also become the vice president of and spokesman for RTR Funding Group, which owns the Russian Tea Room, devised a ruse to take her to the top floor of the ornate restaurant.

They called his complaints a ruse to flee to the United States.

When, travelling south to Cairo, he heard rumour of ruins hidden among the mountains of Wadi Musa, he was quick to devise a ruse: 'I pretended to have made a vow to have slaughtered a goat in honour of Haroun (Aaron), whose tomb I knew was situated in the extremity of the valley,' he wrote, 'and by this stratagem I thought that I should have the means of seeing the valley on the way to the tomb.'.

So does the very elaborate ruse that Harry and his associates (Stephen Lang and Juan Carlos Hernandez) devise to obtain the doll.

Investigators said they located her car at a Beach Boulevard motel and devised a ruse to get her and her companion to come out of their room.

Opposition representatives initially dismissed the move as a ruse to force people to leave.

If necessary, create a ruse to get closer to him.