Sentence examples for was subterfuge from inspiring English sources

Rather, they say, it was subterfuge, a political game, an elaborate ploy to throw a chaotic country into even more confusion.

For my generation, grunge was more than just music: it was subterfuge, knowledge, philosophy, empathy, wit, courage, love, desire and anger, and it saddens me that nothing has truly replaced it.

When it does stoop to show the secretary of state dating a parade of starlets, it posits that this was subterfuge to cover his pernicious machinations in Vietnam, East Timor and Chile.

The fact is that subterfuge was used, the man got in contact with the woman on the estate and said he had been put in touch by a local paedophile and he heard that he had his daughters too – that was subterfuge.

But all this was subterfuge.

But all we've seen from their side is subterfuge.

And where there's sex, there's subterfuge, a truism that runs from "Cyrano de Bergerac" through "The Crying Game".

Of course, this being a movie, there had to be subterfuge and subtext to the hypnosis, which meant some aspect of mind control would come in.

In less than two minutes there's subterfuge, streaks of blood, paranoia, and a phone that rings ominously, overlaid by a breathy, synth-driven soundtrack.

The chairman of the state education board, Dr. Don McLeroy, a dentist in Central Texas, denies that the phrase "is subterfuge for bringing in creationism".

According to Lancaster Online, the judge declared the herdshare agreement by which Allgyer supplied the club, Grassfed on the Hill, to be "subterfuge".