Sentence examples for game of bluff from inspiring English sources

The hope among business leaders is that the prime minister is playing a game of bluff.

Both the remaining bidders are left engaged in a high stakes game of bluff.

In many ways cricket, like all sports, is just a big game of bluff.

Polonsky had invited his managers over to play Mafia, a parlor game of bluff and strategy.

Mad Hatter is a simple, stupid game of bluff, double bluff and blind luck.

Still, for bid aficionados, Friday's 5pm deadline makes for an intriguing tactical game of bluff.

So both the government and Mr. Sadr have alternated hawkish statements and peace overtures, playing a tricky game of bluffs and counter-bluffs as each tries to ascertain the other's breaking point.

Against this Fellini-like backdrop, a tense game of diplomatic bluff was being played out on the first floor.

Kim Jong-il may be playing a game of nuclear bluff to win economic concessions and political revival, but the people are deadly serious about the risks they take.

Only when the rockets needed to get really big, capable of reaching the moon, did the United States begin to pull ahead.It was also a game of elaborate bluff, in which both sides tried to disguise or conceal what they were up to.

Less than two weeks after this game of political bluff, rumors of the prime minister's resignation surfaced Monday, the day after a meeting between Zida and Kafandao to discuss a way out of the current crisis.