Some observers believe this may be a feint, designed to test American responses and resolve.

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An interesting feature that Aurora Feint has added to PlayTime is that multiplayer games will stay in play even if one player drops out due to a bad connection.

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Brad Barritt and Tait failed to halt McAlister's initial midfield burst, and Gear's feint and step inside Delon Armitage was enough to propel him over for his second try.

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Getting access to those deposits, however, is not for the feint-of-heart.

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Unless it was a cunning political feint, Mr Erdogan's anti-EU outburst is thus hard to understand.

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Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, worries that a symbolic or partisan feint at reform this year could fail and then simply make it impossible to muster the support that will be needed from both parties in 2011.

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Aurora Feint is also behind a social gaming platform called OpenFeint, which other mobile game developers can use to add social features to their games on the iPhone.

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