Sentence examples for clever deception from inspiring English sources
In early 1539 he conquered Bengal and, through clever deception, the Rohtas stronghold southwest of Bengal.
East did much better by shifting to the spade deuce, and South, in trouble, resorted to a clever deception.
This was a clever deception in light of the fact that no breach in the Union would have happened in the first place had Lincoln and his fellow Republicans not refused to admit more slave states to the Union.
Some of the examples he provides are 'There is a past,' 'There are physical objects,' and 'I am not being fooled by a clever deception.' He appears to think that these propositions have a property we may call "elusiveness," where p is elusive for me if and only if p's falsity would not change my experiences.
'Listen' is a very clever deception, building on the history the show shares with it's audience.
At times, American intelligence has fallen victim to North Korea's clever deceptions.
When the lives of these women converge in the picturesque artists' colony of St. Ives, one of them will die -- and only then will Mann reveal her clever deceptions by unraveling the simplistic assumptions we have based on appearances and showing us how complicated these women really are.
Then Bolton picks up the same argument that was used by Dick Cheney to pressure the intelligence community for several months last spring and summer to back off its conclusion: that the evidence they had produced in support of it was all part of a clever Iranian "deception campaign".
In each case, they devote considerable attention to a clever strategy of deception that appears designed to prevent the American people from discerning what it is they are actually doing.
Stephen Cambone, undersecretary of defense for intelligence, comes across as a fool who discounted the C.I.A.'s warnings about Al Qaeda in the summer of 2001, asking Mr. Tenet if he had thought about the possibility that Al Qaeda's threat was "just a grand deception, a clever ploy to tie up our resources".
