This is not a ruse to try to get over-recruiting.
If he is not, we shall know that it was all a ruse.
We must never be taken in by that ruse.
And that was done by means of an immense ruse.
Both sides have employed decoys and clever ruses either to obtain evidence or to conceal it, as the case may be.
Therefore, he now stands exposed, caught out in a cheap and contemptible ruse.
Those tears are a ruse: they do not care one jot about means-testing and that has been shown over many years.
We have had a series of fertile little ruses—a sort of "petite astuce"—to make the settlement work.
