Sentence examples for a 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.

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.

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.

At first, it seemed a defensive ploy, but eventually she fell into an unguarded conversation about the dumping of men ("but let's not call it dumping"), Chinese astrology, her thoughts on having kids (not ready but unconcerned), her qualms about her resistance to marriage (temporarily single at 35 was one thing, she said, but alone at 45 -- "I think, well, that wouldn't be very nice").

Don't wait until it becomes a severe issue and then finding yourself using, "Well, this has been going on for some time", as a defensive ploy in your favor.

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.

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.

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.

A defensive ditch".