Either the system was going bananas, or the virus was at work already, or this was the most elaborate subterfuge ever devised.

For a brief time, she wondered if somehow this was some sort of elaborate subterfuge that Xyon was engaging in.

He added that the Palestinians would not have to resort to such expensive and elaborate subterfuge to obtain weapons.

Iosif Kotek was involved in an elaborate subterfuge to keep the details of these developments from Tchaikovsky's wider circle, including his parents.

Inside, Chumley's is still equipped with the trap doors and secret stairs that composed part of its elaborate subterfuge.

Surreptitiously battling the powers that be is Vincent, who has concocted an elaborate subterfuge.

They do things for themselves and then attempt to conceal their motivations through elaborate subterfuges.

There won't be many names - not capable of making the most of this elaborate subterfuge to smuggle him into Bilyarsk.

Prosecutors asserted that McWane managers then engaged in an elaborate subterfuge to hide the discharges from regulators.

The woman is playing hard to get as part of an elaborate subterfuge.