Sentence examples for Defensive ploy from inspiring English sources

"My take on it, at a minimum, is that it is a defensive ploy, because so much has come out," said Mr. Silverman, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Rather than issuing detailed lists of proposals, he usually chose the Reaganesque strategy of enunciating general principles a defensive ploy, to be sure, but one that often left viewers with a clearer idea of where he stood.

Earlier this year the government blocked all US pictures from reaching Chinese cinemas for one month, a defensive ploy designed to boost the success of the local film industry.

A two-pronged strategy delivers results only when the low-cost operation is launched offensively to make money not as a purely defensive ploy to hurt low-cost rivals.

That hostile takeover attempt prompted a costly defensive ploy by CBS, which contributed to that company's much-noted internal instability in 1985 and 1986, and an ultimate change in management.

It was first mooted by Unilever, which is behind brands such as Marmite and Persil, last year as a defensive ploy to make itself less vulnerable to takeover after it fended off an unwelcome £115 billion bid from America's Kraft Heinz.

Home advantage and a few defensive ploys will not be enough.

But this was a defensive professional ploy, and evidence of a conventional upper middle-class mistrust of self-hype, rather than a mark of reclusiveness: he did in fact enjoy being a member of several London clubs.

Last Wednesday, during the debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Senator Clinton tried to put Senator Obama on the defensive - a ploy, very obvious, to raise doubts about his electability.

It was a ploy to exploit the Knicks' defensive philosophy, which calls for defensive switches when other teams would ask their players to fight through screens to maintain the optimal defensive assignments.

The ploy succeeded defensively.