This is the modus operandi that we have today.

Isn't this the sort of thing they do in detective stories?

The old ring trick!

The Panel met the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Liberia, who stated that it could not do anything until the Minister of Justice issued a legal order to freeze assets.

Well, of all the filthy lowdown tricks.

It's a rotten trick.

Paradine, this is the devil's work.

Typical psychiatrist's dodge!

Oh, that's Candy.

Well, that's Candy.

It's called prune whip, Ms. Ziegelman said, adding that a common trick was to give modest recipes a snazzy name.

I knew all the salesman's tricks.

I've seen you pull some low tricks on women.

Just what is this ingenious little dodge, eh?

I'll talk to anybody that'll tell me what kind of an operator you were!

Back then I had a high regard for his talents as a seducer.

Now this is a tactic that patent trolls are supposed to use on people to get their way.

Misdirection isn't the only trick that comedy has up its sleeve.

So I thought, forget the rock opera, forget the bombast, my usual tricks.

Yeah, it was the usual cocktail a little bit of threats, a little bit of friendly advice, a little bit of financial police, a little bit of text control, so you always have somebody who never leaves your office.

I hear that's a favorite pirate trick.

And what does he do? He likes to tell you how the deceased got deceased, the people he's talking to through his ear, you see?

Their distinguishing fea ture is that they can be bought for money. More recently, cogni tive science has helped to make the techniques of deception even more effective, giving rise to political professionals who concentrate only on get ting results.

He called the demonstrators pro fascists and compared the demonstrations to tactics which Hitler employed to gain power.

He with his treats of suicide, boasts of hereditary taint, incestuous love!

Meanwhile, the Burundi authorities have rejected this offer, which they describe as propaganda.

The clearest example is anti dumping, a ploy used whenever a country begins to succeed in competing with specific products.

Another technique is transference accusing opponents of having motives or using methods that characterize the accuser himself. For example, David Horowitz, who accuses me of being the Lenin of the anti American conspiracy, is a former Trotskyite for whom opponents are never adversaries to be debated, but rather enemies to be crushed.

There are many situations in which apologies are not necessary, because both sides agree to move on. And non apology apologies for example, I m sorry if you feel I have offended you are often worse than nothing, although they are a familiar diplomatic stock in trade of which I, too, have been guilty of using.

This is why we hesitate to use this ploy, because we know that between now and 10 September no serious work can be done.

We see this as a part of a pattern and regrettably, an intimidatory effort which cannot succeed.

It also contains articles aimed at fostering the exchange of information useful to strengthen national criminal investigation procedures, such as those related to the schemes and tactics routinely used by firearms traffickers.

The Japanese authorities should stop hanging onto such foolish manoeuvres as playing tricks and making plots, while ridiculing the conscience of the world by wearing the mask of the victim.

According to the information received, while in Costa Rica they have been subjected to harassment and threats, presumably by members of the Honduran security forces.

Anyway, I preferred to think Suzanne was guilty than to suspect Guillaume, whose dirty tricks had never been aimed at me before.

One of the novel methods that the PLA has employed is to bring ethnic Han pastoralists to the valleys along the LAC and give them cover to range across it, in the process driving Indian herdsmen from their traditional pasturelands. But the latest crisis was sparked by China s use of direct military means in a strategic border area close to the Karakoram Pass linking China to India.

6. In its reply, the Government described the allegations as the recognisable product of the terrorists apos propaganda that should be treated with extreme caution .

What way?

Look. Kabuki plays.

Don't start that. Not again.

Phase

The elimination of time and distance barriers and the increased popular access to information, technology and communications changed the techniques used to achieve terrorist objectives and allowed terrorist groups to network with one another.

He's figured out one of his typical tricks.

In their October 18 communiqué, eurozone leaders stated in no uncertain terms that they are not prepared to go there. Given Europe s facility at creative accounting, some way will be found to keep Greece on life support.

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