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  • On paper, R.U.S.E. seems like an exciting idea: a real-time strategy game played on a virtual tabletop with realistic landscapes, infantry, tanks and airplanes, coupled with special espionage abilities called Ruses sounds like the kind of concept that strategy fanatics would kill for.

    Voodoo Extreme 2010

  • For example, if we conservatively estimate the members of academia as one million, then the frequency of Michael Ruses among the critics is roughly one in a million.

    Barbara Forrest Speaks Out 2006

  • Ruses served my turn to draw the time out-first a close-grained web

    "You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us." Ann Althouse 2007

  • [37] See John Quigley, The Ruses for War (Prometheus Books, 1992), chapters 27 – 29.

    Bush Abroad Hoffmann, Stanley 1992

  • History have mis beaucoup de Ruses dans leur Politique.

    John Adams diary 29, 12 March - 31 July 1779 1961

  • Another trickster was William McCloundy, also known as "IOU O'Brien", who "sold" the bridge in 1901, according to Carl Sifakis's Hoaxes and Scams: A Compendium of Deceptions, Ruses and Swindles.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Not only does putting a lot of the control into the computer's hands make unit management significantly less stressful - and of course make the prospect of actually playing the Xbox and PS3 versions far less terrifying - but it also allows you to focus on the actual strategy of the game - and the Ruses themselves.

    Computer And Video Games 2009

  • Ruses become available every few minutes, after which weapons like camo nets can be used to keep enemy players in the dark while spy planes root out the enemy headquarters.

    Total Gaming Network 2009

  • Ruses such as bogus software updates or security checks and booby-trapped Web pages or emails are among "social engineering" scams hackers use to dupe people into allowing malicious software past computer defenses.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Ruses are now rife; foreign nationals the main targets

    TODAYonline 2008

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