Sentence examples for uses trickery from inspiring English sources

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In "The Rainbow's End," by M. J. Fievre, a young love turns menacing; in "The Finger," by Gary Victor, a burglar's adventure ends unluckily; and in "Which One?," by Evelyne Trouillot, a mother uses trickery to surrender her daughter to life in America.

Gita Wolf's Gobble You Up!, which is beautifully illustrated by Sunita in finger-painted artwork adapted from a traditional Meena art form, is the story of a scheming jackal who is so idle that he gives up hunting and instead uses trickery.

El gato con botas, better known in English as Puss in Boots, concerns a clever cat who uses trickery to gain power and a princess for his low-born master.

"Master Cat; or, The Booted Cat" ; commonly known in English as "Puss in Boots", is a European literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master.

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"I used trickery and deceit," he said.

"It is always dangerous to use trickery with the voters, thus with democracy," it said.

The police had not used trickery or deliberately evaded the law, he said.

Mr. Moussaoui, who has insisted on acting as his own lawyer, complained that the judge was using trickery to "prepare me for the gas chamber".

One was Mike Dobsevage, 35, from Danbury, Conn., who said he thought the police had used "trickery, deceit or entrapment" while stopping and arresting the marchers on the bridge.

Mr. McCready has acknowledged using trickery to extract a confession from Mr. Tankleff, who never signed it and promptly disavowed it.

Defense lawyers were no less critical of the Justice Department, contending that a sloppy and overzealous prosecution had used trickery and intimidation to squeeze false testimony from unreliable witnesses.

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