Sentence examples for trickery against from inspiring English sources

She had since moved to Melbourne, and far from holding my trickery against me, she offered me her apartment for the weekend while she stayed with her boyfriend, Wes McCarthy.

Netherlands star man Johan Cruyff shows off his famous piece of trickery against Sweden - later dubbed the 'Cruyff turn' - during the 1974 World Cup group stage.

The "old ball coach" Steve Spurrier called for some trickery against Wisconsin in the Capital One Bowl on Wednesday and it worked perfectly.

Similarly, the position against trickery for profit gives Facebook a wide berth to fight against spammers, scammers and shady businesses making false claims about products.

And after decades of police coercion, by means ranging from torture to trickery, the privilege against self-incrimination became the basis of Miranda v. Arizona [1966], requiring police to give warnings to a suspect before custodial interrogation.

As the most experienced and most respected member of Grant's Cabinet, Fish helped to counteract the period's low political standards by leading the element of Grant's inner circle who laboured to keep the president vigilant against trickery and graft, to save him from improper appointment of old friends, and to prevent gross violations of the civil liberties of blacks.

Instead, the "just-a-dream" device is pulled again and again, a trickery that works against the reader's trust.

Home selected the séance sitters who sat next to him, his hands and feet were not controlled and according to Frank Podmore "no precautions were taken against trickery".

Earl Parish cried out — a smoke-garbled protest against this trickery, this betrayal.

Consumer fraud, illicit activities that involve deceit or trickery and are perpetrated against an individual purchaser or group of customers, resulting in financial loss or physical harm.

In an astrological self-analysis, he described his "eagerness for trickery" and his plots against his "enemies," and said he was under the influence of Mars's "rage-provoking force".