Sentence examples for ruse to prevent from inspiring English sources

The specter of rationing, thus, has been a ruse to prevent the loss of power over such decisions.

Performed without an interval – possibly a ruse to prevent people from leaving at half time – Nosferatu starts and ends with the ringing of a mobile phone.

The move was exposed by WikiLeaks and the Guardian as the latest ruse to prevent the Chagos islanders from ever returning to their homeland.

The Maginot line was a clever ruse to prevent a German invasion of France which cost around 5bn francs and took 10 years to build in the 1930s.

She said the escorts were "only there as a ruse to prevent women speaking to our people, who include trained counsellors, who can give these women advice and alternatives to abortion".

One popular story suggested he was the son of Emperor Napoleon III, and that his claim of coming from South Africa was a ruse to prevent persecution.

This is a ruse to keep you quiet, thereby allowing the bad behavior to continue.

When asked by the Citizen what the mint is doing to prevent another ruse like this from happening, the plant told the paper that they had added additional security measures, such as high-definition security cameras and an overall better system for finding ass-deep gold pucks inside their employees.

Troop numbers were progressively reduced from 7 December and cunning ruses were performed to fool the Turks and to prevent them from discovering the Allies that were departing.

Maybe this is all just an elaborate ruse from the MP for South West Surrey to try to prevent the perfectly legitimate use of the words "bell end" and Jeremy Hunt in the same sentence.

It is an opportunity for law enforcement to prevent crime without the heavy-handed and spurious tools of a "national security" ruse.