(1) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
(2) Has the Bank of England governor been caught bluffing on interest rates?
(3) If there is now alarm on the no side that the negative approach is not working, it was fuelled by a poll on Thursday showing that the Osborne move on currency had apparently backfired, with more Scots believing the chancellor was bluffing than thought he was telling the truth.
(4) Bankers are Putins, bullying and bluffing their way across Whitehall.
(5) A game of hardball ensued, with the BBC realising that Hunt was not bluffing when he warned, at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival in August, that "The BBC has to live on the same planet as everyone else."
(6) In that more deferential era, Boothby bluffed his way out of it, furiously denied the allegations, and successfully sued the Sunday Mirror for £40,000.
(7) On the first option the Scottish National party says Westminster parties are bluffing when they insist that such a deal would be impossible – something they of course deny.
(8) High- and low-Machiavellian sixth graders played a bluffing game.
(9) Sturgeon said Tory ministers who believed she was bluffing were wrong.
(10) and there was a good deal of bluffing going on Chris Anyway we will be back in a couple of days once this is over Ivory Coast – Fatboy Slim Facebook Twitter Pinterest Norman Cook had No1 records with The Housemartins and Beats International before adopting the pseudonym Fatboy Slim.
(11) Angus Robertson, the party’s leader in Westminster, said: “The prime minister should know that the SNP and the Scottish government are not bluffing; we are deadly serious about protecting Scotland’s place in Europe and I would expect to hear that she is taking this seriously if making keynote speech about Brexit.
(12) There is only the whole menu, or none.” Malta’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat, insisted: “There is absolutely no bluffing from the EU side, no saying, ‘We will start in this position and then soften up.’ No, this is really and truly our position and it will not change.” He said he had “seldom witnessed … as much convergence” between EU states as he had on Brexit.
(13) Some diplomats and officials in Brussels, while dismayed by the serial negative signals from Yanukovych in recent weeks, remained nonetheless hopeful that the president was bluffing, seeking to extract better terms from the EU and could yet yield at the last minute in Vilnius, issuing a presidential pardon for Tymoshenko.
(14) Joseph Muscat, the prime minister of Malta – which takes over the EU’s rotating presidency in January, said the same: There is absolutely no bluffing from the EU side, at least in the council meetings I have attended – no one is saying: ‘We will start in this position and then we will soften up.’ No, this is really and truly our position, and it will not change.
(15) Salmond and Swinney favour a currency union and insist that George Osborne and Ed Balls are bluffing when they rule it out.
(16) All of us have been pretty clear in our approach that we want a fair deal for the UK, but that kind of fair deal can’t translate itself into a superior deal.” He added: “There is absolutely no bluffing from the EU side, at least in the council meetings I have attended, saying ‘we will start in this position and then we will soften up’.
(17) He dropped out of sixth form with a friend, Jack Foster, to promote a hip-hop club night in Norwich, then the pair "bluffed" their way into being Stryder's managers when the rapper performed there.
(18) The no side headed into spring in nervous mood as polls showed that a larger number of people agreed with Salmond’s assessment that they were bluffing.
(19) He mistakenly had one national newspaper editor down as an Arsenal fan, beginning every encounter with a long analysis of Wenger's men, with the editor in question bluffing wildly, too polite to tell the PM he'd got it wrong.)
(20) Bluffing games Cash ‘n Guns Probably the only board game that lets you point imitation firearms at your fellow players, Cash ‘n Guns places you in the role of a gangster freshly returned from a successful heist.
Lying
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie, to tell a falsehood.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie, to be supported horizontally.
Example Sentences:
(1) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
(2) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
(3) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(4) 8.47pm: Cameron says he believes Britain's best days lie ahead and that he believes in public service.
(5) They are just literally lying.” In August Microsoft severed its ties, saying Alec’s stance on climate change and several other issues “conflicted directly with Microsoft’s values”.
(6) The bundles may lie parallel to the plasma membrane and to the long axis of the cell.
(7) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
(8) The value of benefit-risk, benefit-cost, and cost-effectiveness analyses lies not in providing the definitive basis for a decision on vaccine use or evaluation.
(9) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
(10) The C-terminal sequence contains an amphiphilic alpha-helix of four turns which lies on the surface of the beta-barrel.
(11) The lies Trump told this week: from murder rates to climate change Read more “President Obama has commuted the sentences of record numbers of high-level drug traffickers.
(12) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.
(13) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.
(14) This contrasts sharply with the reduction in both the frequency and surface area of sensory neuron active zones that accompanies long-term habituation, and suggests that modulation of active zone number and size may be an anatomical correlate that lies in the long-term domain.
(15) Police in Rockhampton have ordered residents to leave their homes as electricity is switched off in low-lying areas.
(16) The additional value of these methods, especially of the intensive monitoring, lies also in the possibility of compiling new knowledge about semiology and electro-clinical correlation of epileptic seizures, possible trigger mechanisms and long-term therapeutic effects.
(17) Here we present images of polydeoxyadenylate molecules aligned in parallel, with their bases lying flat on a surface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and with their charged phosphodiester backbones protruding upwards.
(18) Day by day we strive to unmask all the lies told to citizens.
(19) When an exercise test is not performed, a resting radionuclide left ventricular ejection fraction is recommended, and coronary angiography is considered if the value lies between 0.20 and 0.44 (12% 1-year mortality).
(20) Pre and post infusion blood samples were drawn from a catheter lying at the lower inferior vena cava and analyzed for prostaglandin E and F, and progesterone.