This is damn brilliant.

There's nothing I can do.

And it is a trick.

Scandinavia s Accounting Trick

Banksy s latest stunt is just that a stunt which calls for attention yet speaks of little more than the universal desire to be noticed.

This is a cheap trick, aimed to give maximum offense.

User Wuyue Sanren thought the move is a trick to get rid of the ministry's enormous debt

So if you have any plot to devise against Me , then devise it .

If you now have any conspiracy , carry it out on Me .

if you have a trick , try you now to trick Me ! '

If now ye have any craft , try that craft upon Me .

So if you have a plot , use it against Me ( Allah ) !

So if you have a strategy , use it against Me .

So if you have any ploy , try it against Me !

If now ye have any wit , outwit Me .

If you have any stratagems left , try them out against Me !

If you are cunning , then try your cunning against Me !

So if you have a plan , then plan against Me .

If you have any plans , use them .

So if you have a plan , plan against Me ( now ) .

If now you have any strategy , use it against Me .

Now , if ye have a trick ( or plot ) , use it against Me !

This is not to say that all appeals to religion are just cynical election ploys.

It is an old trick throw enough mud and some of it will stick.

Many analysts and activists quickly denounced the announcement as nothing more than a theatrical ploy.

Cynics might call this the old bread and circuses routine.

But he should have. The opposition quickly attacked the move as a dangerous gimmick and a smokescreen.

Another trick is to cool the building's thermal mass at night, and then cool the building from the thermal mass during the day.

The clearest example is anti dumping, a ploy used whenever a country begins to succeed in competing with specific products.

They still do. Today s Russians hope that Putin, who blindsided his opponents with his annexation of Crimea, might have another daring trick up his sleeve one that will stabilize financial markets and revive the oil prices on which Russia s economy depends.

The Limits of Growth got it so wrong because its authors overlooked the greatest resource of all our own resourcefulness.

Like today, consumers discovered that markets could leave them helpless, leading to calls for regulation.

Other species use pheromones to confuse the host ants or to trick them into carrying the parasitic queen into the nest.

Indeed, many regard Netanyahu s Iran obsession as nothing more than a successful ploy to divert attention from the Palestinian issue.

Upon assuming office, he entrusted budgetary forecasting to a new, independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), thus forfeiting any opportunity for sleight of hand.

And I'm applying a similar trick to say, what if we looked at the universe in our culture through the eyes of technology? What does technology want?

This ploy is only successful if in most cases you do have a powerful hidden force and only sparsely use the empty fort strategy.

To somehow make young Wade his successor, the 86 year old president has resorted to every trick in the book.

The defendants try one antic after another, and Hussein shows every form of contempt possible except mooning the judge.

While some dismissed the video as a stunt, others emphasized that it only gained attention because of the international fame Banksy has gained over the years.

I studied cooking in school for four years, and in that experience, which was called domestic science, it was a bit of a cheap trick for me to try and get a science qualification.

Nor are the talks a Syrian ploy to avoid facing an international tribunal on the assassination of Lebanon s former prime minister, Rafik Hariri.

Some believe that we will ultimately find a compromise, some ruse to make the Irish succumb, that gives the EU a treaty.

But those who are helpless , men , women and children , who can neither contrive a plan nor do they know the way ,

Except those who were forcibly subdued among men , and the women and children , unable to devise a plan and unaware of the way .