Sentence examples for transparent ruse from inspiring English sources

But Mr Fabius's initiative seemed a transparent ruse to advance France's idea of setting up a pan-European financial regulator, with its headquarters, naturellement, in Paris.

The Blues have this week decided to join the Maroons on the low road by the completely transparent ruse of naming Robbie Farah at hooker despite the regular rake having almost no chance of turning out on Wednesday night.

Others, meanwhile, think that this distinction is a transparent, self-serving ruse that allows people motivated by deep-seated racial bias and resentment to excuse their beliefs.

But to the world beyond Westminster, a ten-minute prime minister would surely seem a transparent and absurd ruse.Previous bouts of unrest have likewise suggested a worrying divorce from reality.

"The Unfathomable Ruse"?

That's a ruse.

Why this elaborate ruse?

Fraud, cheat, deception, ruse -.

That ruse failed too.

The ruse worked.

Russia is a ruse.