Sentence examples for duplicitous game from inspiring English sources

In Syria, Kerry said on Sunday, "Russia is playing a very duplicitous game, and a very dangerous game".

He also questioned whether the administration had been playing "a duplicitous game": publicly encouraging Mr. Aristide but declining to assert itself in his behalf with the insurgents.

Harper believes that Miliband, who wrote the Labour manifesto for the last general election which committed the party to House of Lords reform, is playing a duplicitous game, he told the Guardian.

What is required, first of all, is to prevent Saudi Arabia from playing a duplicitous game whereby the authorities in Riyadh help the Afghan President Karzai in his attempts to woo moderate Taliban while promoting the violent creed of Wahhabism across this volatile region.

But insurers were playing a duplicitous game.

Golf tends to act exalted when, in fact, it is a duplicitous game.

Buried in the bloat of Joan Carr-Wiggin's interminable "If I Were You" are the seeds of what might have been a lean, snappy farce about duplicitous, adulterous games.

The first-person shooter Bioshock used it to devastating effect in its tale of a failed underwater utopia, experienced via the duplicitous voice of Frank Fontaine; while the psychological horror game Heavy Rain famously pulled a character plot twist so audacious, some players could barely forgive the writers for their transgression.

I giggled as I read Thomas L. Friedman's April 21 column, "Changing the Channel," about the moral and ethical superiority of those playing and reporting on the game of golf in comparison with the duplicitous, warring politicians and media commentators involved in the Middle East conflict and the war on terror.

To his doting single mother Marisa Tomei, he is still a tender angel; but to her new boyfriend (John C Reilly, who knows the manchild game all too well), Cyrus is a manipulative, duplicitous, psychotic rival who makes it clear this nest isn't big enough for the both of them.

France's serial requests are treated as duplicitous by those who ask why big countries break rules that smaller ones have to obey (a game that first began when France and Germany bust the stability pact in 2002).