Sentence examples for mere decoy from inspiring English sources
The overall scheme was actually a brilliant "double bluff," Macintyre writes, designed to "not only divert the Germans from the real target but portray the real target as a 'cover target,' a mere decoy".
For Dido and Aeneas, Tate actually followed Virgil quite faithfully, with the exception of the addition of two Macbeth-inspired witch scenes that both complicate the action and introduce a considerable measure of doubt about the role of destiny in Aeneas's decisions; Mercury here becomes a mere decoy sent by the witches to trick Aeneas with the overall purpose of hurting Dido.
Are the children mere decoys, like the fawn impersonated in "Gate"?
In addition, compounds that do not completely match a respective activity profile are still ranked higher than entirely undesired profiles or mere decoys.
The results of the experiments with single and dual-target activity indicate that the SVM with linear combinations has plainly more problems ranking similar activity profiles higher than mere decoys.
Hillary Clinton was the decoy.
