Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet SUBTERFUGE

Definition av SUBTERFUGE

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• During that time, they lived in the mountains of Iran and the Levant, and held a strict subterfuge policy throughout the Middle East, posing a substantial strategic threat to Fatimid, Abbasid, and Seljuk authority, and killing several Christian leaders.
• It can also be called, with varying subjective implications, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, ruse, or subterfuge.
• However, suspecting a Spartan ploy and having already begun the work of construction, Athens employed subterfuge to delay the wheels of diplomacy until Athens could finish them.
• Although PGP keys are generally used with personal computers for Internet-related applications, key signing parties themselves generally do not involve computers, since that would give adversaries increased opportunities for subterfuge.
• While sinister forces, including the efficient Baxter and the unpleasant Percy Pilbeam, scheme to put a stop to the book, Ronnie Fish and his old pal Hugo Carmody are entangled in difficult relationships, which require much subterfuge, some pig-theft and a little imposter-ing to resolve.
• When her subterfuge was exposed, ITN immediately terminated her contract and publicly criticized her dishonesty and disloyalty.
• On March 3, 2008, Paul posted a message to his blog, subsequently reposted by one or more unknown parties verbatim on other websites, in which he claimed that Stan Lee helped disguise the origin of Paul's unreported donations to Hillary Clinton, and that he (Paul) has a video tape of Lee admitting to this subterfuge.
• " Unlike the "settled-in homilies" of Nashville Skyline and New Morning, Planet Waves is "rounded out with more than one shade of romance: subterfuge, suspicion, self-hate ('Dirge,' 'Tough Mama'), and memory ('Something There Is About You') counter lighthearted celebration ('On A Night Like This').
• be falsely permitting those students to remain eligible for Title IV disbursements" and "Collins College had used "a coordinated subterfuge to under-report the effect" of federal financial aid dollars disbursed in order to show compliance with the so-called 90/10 Rule.
• After a conference with Idahos executive officer and master chief, further engagements commence, where Idaho eventually triumphs through subterfuge and risk-taking.
• Written in the 14th century the saga relates the adventures of Ref Steinsson, whose unpromising origins lead him to greatness in both combat and subterfuge.
• The consumer was subtly prodded to increase their consumption of grain products while they minimised their consumption of meat products, through the suggestive "rainbow" that was in reality an areal subterfuge.
• In fact, his Conjuration Nen abilities suggest that he is not involved in combat, but rather theft and subterfuge.
• Kroupa, subterfuge prior to The Transmission elicited a betrayal of trust which yielded the uploaders the text.
• The narrative escalates with the blackmailer's unexpected appearance at Ollie's residence during the dinner party, where Ollie resorts to audacious subterfuge to avert exposure.
• To confound possible litigation, the title pages claimed the printing had been done in "Benares", but this was a subterfuge.
• The Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) was a controversial law passed by the Indian parliament in 1971 giving the administration of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Indian law enforcement agencies very broad powers – indefinite preventive detention of individuals, search and seizure of property without warrants, and wiretapping – in the quelling of civil and political disorder in India, as well as countering foreign-inspired sabotage, terrorism, subterfuge and threats to national security.
• Major "Bloodhound" Filbert's inquiry about Captain Dodge's purported offspring prompts Moe to produce a swaddled infant from the nearby railroad station, whose unexpected racial identity unveils the Stooges' subterfuge.
• She learned how to march, salute, light a pipe, and swing a kitbag of the right weight, so as to give the correct appearance of a man, while always ensuring that "her femininity shone through, sometimes winking at the audience as if to let them in on the subterfuge".
• In response to the articles published on 6 to 9 December 2011, Bell Pottinger lodged a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) against the Independent, claiming that the information about its activities published by the newspaper had been obtained through subterfuge and was not of sufficient public interest to merit the Bureau of Investigative Journalism's undercover investigation.

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