This proved to be a ruse, and Carlyle subdued Octopus and stole his technology, using it to create his own version of Octavius ' harness.

However, there were few evidence that proved that Cole and Johnson discovered the unscrupulous ruse of their competitors and avoided the confrontation altogether by destroying their booking contract with Michael Levitt.

The death of Skullmaster proved to be a ruse, however, and Skullmaster was proud of his pupil for showing such deviousness.

This however proved to be a ruse, and as Company C drew near the German trenches, the machine guns opened up again.

This proved, however, to be a ruse ; the intent was merely to alienate Hasan Buzurg from Togha Temur.

I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.

In chapter 21 of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, for example, Poirot talks about a mentally disabled nephew: this proves to be a ruse so that he can find out about homes for the mentally unfit, and in Dumb Witness, Poirot tells of an elderly invalid mother as a pretence to investigate the local nurses.

Ultimately, Sauron advised him to attack Valinor and under the ruse that doing so would allow the king to claim immortality.

The ruse was so transparent it made Charles a laughing-stock in Western Europe.

He is so successful in gaining her innocent affection, that Apollo is jealous and puts it into the girl's mind to stop to bathe in the river Ladon ; there, as all strip naked, the ruse is revealed, as in the myth of Callisto, and the huntresses plunge their spears into Leucippos.

The Confederate forces did in fact take over the shipyard, and did so without armed conflict through an elaborate ruse orchestrated by civilian railroad builder William Mahone ( then President of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad and soon to become a famous Confederate officer ).

In the Bay of Islands, there existed a vague but widely diffused belief that the Treaty of Waitangi was merely a ruse of the Pākehā, and the belief that it was the intention of the whites, so soon as they became strong enough, to seize all Māori lands.

The ruse was so successful that Bonaparte ordered Vaubois to advance and defeat his opponent so that he could shift 3, 000 troops to help fight Alvinczi.

However, after some time, Urse was so upset with the Swedish king's greediness that she thought out a ruse to run away from the king and at the same time liberate him of his wealth.

To force his companions to do so, the Doctor claims the fluid link of the TARDIS is running low on mercury ( a ruse he later admits to ), forcing the crew to travel to the city in search of more mercury.

He is so known because apparently he uses the ruse of faking a headache and asking women for an aspirin, wherepon he robs them ( and worse ).

He failed to recognize this call as a ruse, so that he went to town.

This is revealed to be a ruse to draw viewership so Ace could drive every viewer insane.

If the episode was a flashback to a previous time, a ruse would be used such as Dennis singing his song for Jack so he could hear it before the show.

Sometimes the breach turns the termination payment into compensation rather than wages, making it tax-free, so the employee may be only too happy to go along with the ruse.

The ruse was so successful that the Germans still believed that Sardinia and Greece were the intended objectives, weeks after the landings in Sicily had begun.

McCoy, who was famed as a trickster, purportedly rubbed flour on his face so as to appear deathly ill. Ryan is said to have fallen for the ruse, failed to train properly and was not in top condition for the bout.

However, it turns out that this was simply a ruse so that Oblivion would be able to gain a new Avatar of Death-Phyla-Vell.

During one of these clashes, it was revealed that Black Manta was actually an African American, whose stated objective at one point was for black people to be dominant in the ocean after having been oppressed for so long on dry land ( though this goal was revealed to be a ruse he used to trick Cal Durham into following him, and this objective was not at all evident in either his earlier or later appearances ).

To prevent the ruse from being revealed, it is said Ibn Thumart left them buried there, filling their straws so they would suffocate.

Arutha, Prince of Krondor, uses an attempted assassination as a ruse to fake his own death so that he may travel north to confront Murmandamus.

As the embodiment of compassion, Proselyte, began to free the Flash from Parallax's control by reigniting his emotion for compassion over his fear, the embodiment of hope, Adara, began fighting the cloaked villain, who reveals that all this is actually a ruse so that he could capture them all — which he does — revealing himself to be the renegade guardian Krona.

When Cao Hong was threatened by Zhang Fei that his retreat route would be cut off, Cao Xiu saw though the ruse and stated that if Zhang Fei indeed wanted to block their retreat route, he would do so secretly instead of showing his intention so obviously.

The ruse was successful: Montagu, who was monitoring Edward's march, could not convince his men to move against the Yorkist king.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

A ruse involving a murder is used to enlist the help of the Romulans against the Dominion, and dissatisfactions lead the Cardassian leader, Legate Damar, to launch a successful resistance movement against his former Dominion comrades.

The ruse was successful, as the besieged troops never realized that the bulk of the Polish-Lithuanian army was temporarily engaged elsewhere, and neither was Shuisky aware of the Polish-Lithuanian movements nor expecting a major engagement.

This successful ruse impacted somewhat upon the last week of Labor's campaign.

In the Book of Tobit, Asmodeus is betrayed by his jealousy for a woman named Sara and captured by Raphael in a clever ruse concocted by Tobias, her future and first successful husband.

She also appeared ( as herself ) on Will and Grace in an episode dealing with Will and Grace's spuriously bidding on Sandra's Manhattan apartment in order to become friendly with her and culminates in a diatribe from Bernhard when their ruse is exposed, with obfuscating sounds of a blender ( she was having a smoothie made ) blotting out supposed obscenities.

However, the Jewish forces under the High Priest Jonathan behaved too boldly, leading to his capture and murder by ruse when Diodotus marched into Judea.

Hampton, eldest son of an attorney in Buffalo, moved to New York City in 1981 and stumbled upon his now-famous ruse in 1983, when he and a friend were trying to get into Studio 54.

Quark became Grand Nagus for a brief period when it appeared that Zek had died ; however, Zek's death turned out to be a ruse and Quark was promptly deposed.

He is tired of gangster life, and when he finds out the whole mission is a ruse, he welcomes what comes with open arms.

In the Special Edition, this glitch is what enabled John Connor to see through its ruse when it impersonated his mother.

For example, he was reputed to have lulled the reigning welterweight champion Tommy Ryan into a false sense of security before their non-title match by rubbing flour on his face and pretending to be ill. McCoy was also alleged to have invented the ruse of informing his opponent that his shoe was untied to enable McCoy to strike a blow when the unwary adversary would look down at his feet.

However, when the boy claims that " moon people " are about to invade earth, it is revealed that everything he has said is in fact true, and the family drops their ruse in light of the impending danger.

The Doctor and Pex devise a ruse to lure the Chief into a booby trapped room and thereby destroy Kroagnon, but when the plan goes wrong Pex sacrifices himself to drag the Chief into the trap.

Gilgi gradually discovers the identity of her supposed natural mother, who is a seamstress, but when Gilgi actually discovers her, she is living in desperate squalor, and Gilgi discovers that what her adoptive mother had told her was a ruse to hide Gilgi ’ s true background.

She leaves Kevin for Lyon, and arranges with Henry Bellamy to create a job for Lyon to keep him in the U. S. The two eventually wed. Lyon discovers the ruse when tax time approaches.

When Will witnesses Elizabeth kissing Jack aboard the doomed Black Pearl, he believes she now loves Sparrow, unaware it was only a ruse to sacrifice Jack to the Kraken ; Elizabeth is dismayed when Will's secret bargain with Sao Feng is exposed.

Eventually, when X-Factor realized that this ruse was actually a ploy by their former business manager Cameron Hodge to worsen human-mutant relations, they abandoned the X-Terminators identity.

Daniel then uncovers the ruse ( by scattering ashes over the floor of the temple in the presence of the king after the priests have left ) and shows that the " sacred " meal of Bel is actually consumed at night by the priests and their wives and children, who entered through a secret door when the temple's doors were sealed.

Stunned by the rigors of Air Force recruit training, Jeena tried to leave under the pretense that her father was ill, and when that ruse failed, she tried claiming to be a lesbian.

Howard had bought gold on margin May 17, and started the ruse because he knew that any news of a prolongation of the war would cause a rise in the price of gold when investors wanted to transfer their savings elsewhere.

This is later revealed to have been a ruse: the Vogons had been hired to destroy the Earth by a consortium of psychiatrists, led by Gag Halfrunt, who feared for the loss of their careers when the meaning of life became known.

Crater and Nash later fight for possession of a gun ; and when Nash, as a ruse, fires on Bruno, Crater's men fire on their employer by mistake.

The Resistance devises an elaborate ruse to reroute the train, temporarily renaming railway stations to make it appear to the German escort as if they are heading to Germany when they are actually going in a circle.

Discovering the ruse when the impostors failed to realize Professor X was currently unable to walk, Banshee recruited Sabretooth from a cell in the complex.

Irene agrees to pose as a society girl to convince everyone to shop at Madame Lucy's, but she becomes angry with Donald when he asks her to continue the ruse.

Rick Rude aligned with the Triple Threat to help Douglas became the greatest world champion in ECW by having Rude select Douglas's opponent, however it became a ruse when Rude select Triple Threat member, Bam Bam Bigelow as Douglas's next opponent.

Shouting " fire " as a ruse, they fatally shoot John Donnelly when he opened the door to investigate.

Yvonne's parents presented her as Gawain's kin but this ruse is discovered when she begs Jack to explore her past through visions.