Sentence examples for a calculated ploy from inspiring English sources

However, Robinson says his recent foray into drama wasn't conceived as a calculated ploy to find a new audience.

In an interview, Sen. Michael F. Bennet (D-Colo). described the effort as a calculated ploy to obscure the real impact of failing to reach a spending deal.

While the emotional monologues of their coach are sometimes greeted by the Knicks with a wink, an acknowledgment that they understand the message, most felt that today's incident was not a calculated ploy by Van Gundy to light a spark.

Some diplomats and analysts think it may have been a calculated ploy by the Bush administration to force the junta to give the Red Cross access to Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, which had been denied.

In a statement on Tuesday the Rosenbergs' sons said that David and Ruth Greenglass were the ones who passed atomic secrets on to the Soviets, then "pinned what they did on our parents — a calculated ploy to save themselves by fingering our parents as the scapegoats the government demanded".

Purslow believes those comments were a calculated ploy by Benitez.

Make no mistake, this photo was almost certainly another calculated ploy to get attention and, well, it worked.

There was more than a touch of eccentricity, even a deliberate musical perversity, which the mature Motian trafficked in, a calculated wrench-in-the-machinery ploy that kept his bandmates and his listeners on their feet.

The belligerent talk from Washington might be a ploy to intimidate Tehran, a calculated move to turn Trump's unpredictable nature into strategic leverage.

If a sequel is frequently a purely commercial ploy, a remake may look comparatively like a calculated risk, a compromise offering limited artistic freedom without sacrificing the bottom line.

But in a six-page brief filed along with its revised remedy proposal this afternoon, the Justice Department called that "just a cynical ploy calculated to raise diversionary issues on appeal".