Meanwhile, as Agustino Fontevecchia pointed out here recently, the future of the Euro now rests largely on a game of bluff played out between the European Central Bank and the bond markets.

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In contrast, men tend to use threats, bluff, stake out extreme positions, and use competitive and confrontational tactics.

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As Pyongyang does so, the West calls their bluff and continues to carry out drills and B-52 flights over the peninsula.

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The toughest day of this year's ride, according to one Web site I checked out, is Day One out of Sergeant Bluff, which is a suburb of Sioux City.

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Bank of America's gambit turned out to be a bluff.

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The crisis drags on in North Korea as Kim Jong-Un continues his threatening rhetoric and the world tries to suss out whether the whole thing is bluff and bluster or a serious threat to international security.

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There's only one way to find out: for Bush to call his bluff.

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If it threatens to pull out of government, Mr Netanyahu should call its bluff.

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They're telling customers the Tiger copies that shipped out early will not be supported by Apple, and that users will have to return the boxes and get new copies shipped next week though how they would differentiate "supported" from "unsupported" versions out of all that mess sounds like a bit of a bluff to us.

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As one conservative commentator, George Will, has pointed out, Mr Bush might well get most of the judges he wants by calling the Democrats' bluff.

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