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Examples of bluff


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He is bluffing us and he is bluffing himself.
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We are not talking about bluffing and false bids.
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The milling combine will refuse to give information, and will go on bluffing up to the last minute.
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Patients are bluffed into buying private frames at high fees, when there is no reason to do so at all.
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I understand that some 170 firms of timber importers in this country have already been bluffed.
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I hope they will not be bluffed by the apparent present reasonableness of this régime.
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He had thought that we were bluffing, but he realised that he was wrong.
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Then even if the people have the sense not to be bluffed, what happens?
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We know about the configuration of the mountains and the bluffs.
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We should not be bluffed by the fear that there will be a collapse in oil prices.
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Apparently the union had advised its members that the management was bluffing.
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You chose to say that we were bluffing.
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If one is wise, one's policy should be built on the assumption that those who are opposing one on any particular issue are not bluffing.
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The dangerous thing for us to do in the cause of peace is to carry out a series of bluffs.
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I am sure that no councillor who is, frankly, worth his salt would let himself be bluffed by his officials.
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I do not believe in calling bluffs unless you are prepared to pay the stakes.
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As soon as they realise that we are not bluffing, the better.
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I do not think that anyone in this country was afraid of, or was bluffed by that talk of war.
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I think we have to do a good deal of bluffing as well as actual fighting.
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If they are bluffing they are wasting our time by raising once again an issue which has already been adequately debated.
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The community at large are not going to be bluffed in the future as they have been in the past.
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They have bluffed and bullied the councils into carrying it out.
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My party will not be bluffed.
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If, on the other hand, you are afraid to play a hand which you have and which is strong because the other man successfully bluffs you, you will lose money.
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I think he is bluffing.
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He was bluffed out of the game.
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Both sides are bluffing one another.
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Five public stairways (which adjoin private property) lead down to the shoreline from the base of the bluffs.
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Bedrock consists of limestone, and there are numerous springs, caves and bluffs along the river's edge.
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The bluffs have been terraced and stairways lead between streets.
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Players will thus attempt to trick other players into overbidding by use of early bluffs to inflate a particular face value.
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Bluffs in liar's dice can be split into two main categories: early bluffs and late bluffs.
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Early settlers in the area raised cattle and sheep on the bluffs above the bay.
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After infiltrating the vault and after several series of bluffs and cons, the group succeeds in stealing $160 million.
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He was always out climbing around the bluffs, or going down to the river, or going across the river into the woods.
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Bluffs have a higher expectation when the probability of being called decreases.
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Canyons exist between the sandstone bluffs throughout the park.
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There are many steep bluffs on the eastern sides and many sandy beaches and points on the west side.
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Wagons wound around bluffs 500 ft above the canyons below.
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Hachem has also advised amateur players against bluffing too often or without any outs.
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The north face, which is bare, is 1/2mi km wide and consists of vertical, grayish sand and clay bluffs.
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On top of the river bluffs, fertile windblown loess and topsoil could be used to grow corn, beans, and squash.
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The remainder of the island has low rock bluffs, which are steep on the southern side.
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During this time several families lived together because the caves or shelters under bluffs were larger.
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Their bluff had been well and truly called.
With towering limestone bluffs, natural caves, and a wide variety of trees and flowering shrubs, it is a popular tourist destination.
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However, he may have been bluffing and nothing is confirmed.
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The neighborhood was bound by geography, with the river forming the west, north, and east boundaries and the bluffs demarking the southern one.
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Low but impressive ridges interact with the river, creating high bluffs and hoodoos.
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The island is ringed by steep bluffs that average about 60 m high, and the land elevation ranges from 25-90 above sea level.
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The unit also includes dry lands above the bluffs which bear old fields, prairie, and oak savanna.
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Large bluffs rise to the north, and a fence blocks passage to the south.
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Ozark rivers and streams are typically clear water, with baseflows sustained by many seeps and springs and flow through forests along limestone and dolomite bluffs.
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A number of difficulties arise in the application of this method to bluff-body flows.
Production, concentration, cancellation and diffusion of vorticity are essential features of bluff-body flow.
Figure 1 illustrates a typical flow around a bluff obstacle with wake.
He described how he had fallen down bluffs to avoid charging bears and been chased up trees.
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On their eastern side, an assortment of hanging valleys, truncated spurs, towering bluffs and cirques overlook deep glaciated valleys running north and south.
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The bluffs northwest, southwest and southeast of the main volcanic edifice are remains of this ancestral volcano.
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A scherzo displays bluff, boisterous good humour, leavened by a ruminative trio section.
The main channel of the estuary runs beneath the bluffs of the park.
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Bluffing thus becomes an important aspect of the game.
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The bulk of the state park preserves the bottomland forest, rivers, and backwater lakes below the river bluffs.
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He ordered a desperate withdrawal back across the river onto the bluffs.
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A player's bluffing frequency often accounts for many different factors, particularly the tightness or looseness of their opponents.
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Several minutes later, the soldiers heard the sound of intermittent gunfire coming from the bluffs to the north.
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Shortly into the gorge, two tunnels have been cut through schist rock bluffs.
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Specimens from coastal bluffs and similar harsh habitat are much smaller.
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Highway 26 is nestled between the base of the bluffs and the river channel.
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Massara is urging private property owners along the coast to adopt managed retreat strategies and begin moving residential and other structures away from coastal bluffs.
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Below the dam, the river winds generally east for 63 miles through a rural valley surrounded by low bluffs.
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The property is composed of sandstone bluffs, open plains and creek beds studded with river red gums.
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A fish is also weak when it comes to bluffing and you can also easily see the tells they are showing.
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Many of these sit high up on south-facing bluffs above the river.
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All parties made use of means like bluffing, threat, obstructionism, corruption, horse-trading and even violence.
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A challenging disc golf course was installed in the bluffs and valleys around campus in 2007.
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The onshore portions of the field include beach, coastal bluffs, blufftop grasslands, and eucalyptus groves.
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They used limestone from the nearby bluffs to build the mill and a nearby dam.
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There are frequent bluffs and cliffs and most creeks running down the mountains tumble over waterfalls in one place or another.
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The lake existed for thousands of years, with storms and ice scouring sand off those bluffs.
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The game lends itself to bluffing where the active player uses nonverbal communication to suggest that someone else is active.
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Both are scenic, winding rivers with numerous limestone bluffs.
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The shoreline is accentuated by steep picturesque bluffs which offer fantastic views.
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Strong lake currents over time washed the sand eroded from the bluffs westwards to form the peninsula surrounding the bay.
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They may believe the other side is either bluffing or acting unfairly and deserves to be punished.
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Many became cynical, bluffed their way through, concentrated on family interests, or used their offices for financial gain.
Citizens then serve as the sanctioning mechanism for bluffing only if they become properly informed by open media.
Although widespread around the island, all are well-drained sites: rocky land behind a beach, rocky bluffs, old buildings, and moraines.
My account of the evening cannot, however, do justice to the tactical facades - the bluffs, grand postures, and imperceptible dodges - so common to tournament settings.
Knowing this, rational victims in such circumstances would treat the threats as empty and would call the bluffs.
There is also a conceptual argument against bluffing threats we will consider when we discuss their rationality.
Rugged terrain in the study area is characterized by small gently undulating valleys with few minor steep bluffs.
Granted, people resort to bluffs all the time, often successfully.
However, in an environment where states attempt to misrepresent themselves, challenges will frequently arise as adversaries endeavour to distinguish bluffs from true signals of preferences, power and resolve.
Instead, the real motivation behind the ordinance seems to have been to prevent the tops of oil derricks from being seen by existing homes on the bluffs overlooking the marshland.
When the bluff failed, it is hardly surprising that no-one seriously considered attempting to implement the general strike against war.
On the other hand, bluff bodies appear intuitively to be even more liable to exert upstream influence !
In these devices, fuel is injected upstream of a flame-stabilizing bluff body in the jet pipe.
A general formulation of the problem for any bluff body would seem to be rather complicated, however.
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