Sentence examples for it a ruse from inspiring English sources
In fact I think it a ruse not to have put on clothes whilst appearing clever.
The Eye crew set about scuppering Not Private Eye by sending a crate of whisky to the journalists working on it – a ruse thought up by Cook.
But on balance, he judged it a ruse".A large component of what they do is designed to get a predictable reaction," he said.
When a copy of the plan fell into Soviet hands, Soviet commander Mikhail Tukhachevsky thought it a ruse and disregarded it.
Even though a driver signs a form, said Senator John A. Lynch, a Democratic committee member, "It's a ruse; it's not consent at all".
It was a ruse, and it worked: soldiers hovered but did not interfere.
Some could argue it's a ruse – but it's actually not bad enough to be fake.
He never intended to detonate it, he said later; it was a ruse, to convince the authorities that he had real bombs on the plane.
But Israel treated it as a ruse: in the same period, it killed 21 Palestinians, invaded Palestinian-controlled areas 16 times and demolished dozens of houses.
The artist, it seemed, had not been there for some time: unless it was a ruse, I wondered, and Polke was hiding somewhere round the back.
