Sentence examples for ruse by from inspiring English sources

It was a ruse by Chrebet to throw the Patriots off.

Once in the school, he maintained the ruse by selling life insurance to his teachers.

Based on this behavior, Mr. Rodríguezmacedo argued, the gestor payments were in all likelihood a "ruse" by Mr. Cicero to defraud Wal-Mart de Mexico.

Cynics think the convention may even have been a ruse by some old-timer African leaders to avoid signing a pesky African charter on democracy and elections.

He justified the ruse by saying any possible rental-arrangement would bring him closer to his goal of eventually settling down.

Some developing-country governments suspect this is a ruse by rich countries to shirk their responsibilities while making money out of the poor.

There were several ruses by which the children were saved.

Now, obviously, some of these deals reflect the latest, dazing escalation in the football arms race, and the brazen ruses by which Financial Fair Play already has its teeth tied to a swinging door.

And when we had driven him to some place where we would not be disturbed, we would make him confess his treacheries and the ruses by which he had turned the people's misfortunes to his profit.

These two strands don't sit comfortably together, and it is often not clear whether we're being invited to wonder at the natural charisma of heroic individuals or to deplore the ruses by which heroes trick people into admiring them.

A black man, Holliday speaks at length of the ruses by which he coped with the racism that he endured; he speaks of the efforts to stay out of jail, the pursuit of love or at least of sex, the freewheeling and terrifying tales of his childhood as an effeminate boy with a super-macho father, and his adventures on the striving margins of show business.