Sentence examples for a ploy and a from inspiring English sources

It refers to a possible decertification as a "ploy" and a "sham," calling it the same tactic the union used in 1989, when it decertified, only to later form again. "The union's strategy amounts to an unlawful anticipatory refusal to bargain," the league said in its complaint.

After the day's testimony was completed, Keker broke his usual silence with the press and called the presentation of the pay evidence at that point in the trial a "ploy" and a "cheap shot".

That two-stage approach is a "ploy and a trick" that the United States has used before to try to take advantage of negotiating partners, Salehi is quoted as saying.

Mr. Friedman should know that the settlements are merely a ploy and not an impediment to peace.

In the lexicon of trickery, a correct gamesman uses a gambit while an engaging rogue employs a ploy, and the mildest deceiver trots out a gimmick.

One senior administration official who was not authorized to speak on the record says that while the offer of engagement was "never just an instrument or a ploy," and remains on the table, the very public effort to exhaust all available means of persuasion has helped move Europe, Russia and China toward a tougher stance.

For Bibi, a two-state solution is a ploy and distraction--thus full speed ahead on settlements, apartheidization, and rejection of anyone as an acceptable "partner" for a peace agreement that establishes a viable Palestine.

Start Our State, which is asking other like-minded counties to join the effort, hopes to put the question before Pima County voters in 2012... Paul Eckerstrom, co-chair of Start Our State, said it's not a ploy and not merely a political statement.

"This is ugly manipulation, a political ploy and fraud with a view to the Likud convention".

"It is simply a political ploy and a pathetic one at that," he said.

Democrats denounced the Republicans' poison pill on Mr. bin Laden as a cynical political ploy and "a cheap shot".