Sentence examples for ruse on from inspiring English sources

This terminology game is, on one hand, a sort of ruse, on the other, an expression of something like the psychopathology of real estate".

Whichever form of generic signifier he opts for, this is still a provocative ruse on Mr Petridis's part.

And although I suspect this is a ruse, on his part, to avoid packing, I am still going to greet him cheerfully.

Most people would suspect this was a ruse on your part to escape from their company – and that could be awkward.

Chinery and Rattray suspect that this may have been a ruse on the part of the show's producer, Charles Frohman, to drop it from his schedule.

Ms. Masih's lawyers said the blasphemy charge was a ruse on the part of a local "land mafia," with the goal of evicting up to 400 Christian families from her neighborhood.

Pessimists say the Gaza pullout was a ruse to hold on to the West Bank, or that it traumatised Israeli politics so deeply that even he would not have had the capital to bulldoze Jewish homes there.

He signalled impatiently with his right hand, and I gave up the ruse of lunching on his mother's wares, turned my back on the stall, and fell into step with him.

This is definitely a case where anybody employing the ruse of relying on the film to take part in our book group discussion may be found out rather quickly.

"I hope a generation of bright young minds don't fall for this ruse," wrote one commenter on a legal website recently in the response to the news that yet another big firm has launched a CILEx apprenticeship scheme.

Like many a ruse, this one relies on hitting many, many potential targets at once.