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‘A last-minute offer may be a ruse or a bluff but I'm the guy who ought to make that call.’.‘It should be obvious why I badly want to believe that this is a bluff or a ruse.’.‘Many of the characters feign casual confidence, but the ruse becomes apparent when things start to go wrong.’.‘It does not prohibit the use of surprise, ruses, or stealthy tactics to kill enemy personnel.’.‘It is a shame: if the alleged perpetrator were to work for the CIA, his fantastic charades and ruses might be put to excellent use.’.‘In time, the press and public came to view the petty ruses and gambits regularly employed by a host of Wall Street speculators as despised tools of fraud and monopoly when adopted by Gould.’.‘It is a device at that point in time, a trick and a ruse, and treating the House like a joke.’.‘A stand off in the Black Sea with Turkey is so much part and parcel of most openings that it can easily be dismissed as a ruse to deceive.’.‘There are, in criminal investigations, a number of situations in which the police adopt ruses or tricks in the public interest to obtain evidence.’.‘One must conclude that we know an enormous amount about tricks and ruses (often concocted by brilliant practitioners) but very little about demonstrable impact.’.‘I have described before in this space how, during the chaotic feeding frenzy of the last bull market, city restaurateurs devised all sorts of tricks and ruses in an attempt to break out of the stodgy-though-profitable steakhouse box.’.