Sentence examples for old ruse from inspiring English sources

They have proven more effective than Sucrets tins with pennies, an old ruse.

"After I told him what had happened, the detective said, 'You know, what the other guy is saying doesn't match up with your story,' " Mr. Vansintjan said, an old ruse used to trick people into admissions.

Old ruses, long used in tribal warfare, enabled them to rout greatly superior numbers at negligible loss to themselves.

There is the age-old ruse of hiding them in plain sight by baking the spinach purée into the banana bread.

In 1994, running against Ted Kennedy for his Senate seat, Mr. Romney called blind trusts an "age-old ruse" and said that senatorial candidates had an obligation to set guidelines for their investments.

For would-be dictators, this is the oldest ruse in the book.Term limits certainly place a restriction on democratic choice, which is one reason why they are unwelcome in America's state legislatures.

"Any investments I have over the last eight years have been managed by a blind trust and I understand they do include investments outside of the United States, including Chinese companies," said Romney, who criticized Sen. Ted Kennedy's blind trust as an age-old ruse in the 1994 Senate race.

His death also gained the attention of people who think they know an old carnival ruse when they see it.

Blocking energy deals on the basis of national security is an old protectionist ruse (witness the xenophobia last year about China's state-run oil firm buying America's Unocal).

Thirteen minutes after they'd started, as they pulled out bits of penne and spaghetti and counted the seconds, literally, until it was al dente, and signally failed to employ the old student ruse of throwing it at the wall and seeing if it sticks, I had changed my mind.

Ahh — the old phony-vaccination ruse.