The phrase "a ploy on the" is not correct in English; it should be "a ploy to" or "a ploy for." You can use it when discussing a deceptive strategy or tactic intended to achieve a specific goal.
Example: "The company's announcement was seen as a ploy to distract from their declining sales."
Alternatives: "a tactic to" or "a scheme for."
Or are these reports of his retirement just a ploy on the director's part to get a little respect and make us appreciate him in a way we haven't in a good long while?
After the photographs and small video clips were leaked on the Internet, some of the film unit members felt that the loss might have been a ploy on the part of the producers to create hype.
If I had to guess, this was a ploy on the showrunner Pizzolatto's part to establish his characters as complex, tortured souls with deep-seated motivations that would inevitably drive them towards some sort of dynamic resolution.
On the one hand wisdom here appears to lie in cynicism – in which case, we must conclude: e-petitions are really just a ploy on behalf of the government to perpetuate a naïve understanding of political authority through the illusion, however unconvincing, that they're capable of listening.
A lot of his colleagues said it was a ploy on his part, because he thought the more liberal the bill, the more likely it would be defeated, and that would put an end to it.
Sullivan's book does little to challenge the general impression that this was anything other than a ploy on Jackson's part to distract the public from his P.R. implosion.
Call it a necessary sustainability plan or a cynical ploy on the part of the labels, or both.
The Green Party's candidate, Chris Southall, argued that the election was a stunt, describing it as "a political ploy on the part of UKIP to mess up the Tories".
It is a clever ploy on the part of neoconservatives, a number of whom were former CP members and know how the phrase "politically correct" was used in the past, to insinuate that egalitarian democratic ideas are actually authoritarian, orthodox, and Communist-influenced when they oppose the right of people [End Page 1] to be racist, sexist, and homophobic.
As the broadcasting change went unexplained at the time, one media outlet speculated it was a marketing ploy on the network's part, believing the episode title was "more than a stunning coincidence" and that it was a reference to co-creator J.J. Abrams' other television series, Lost.
Earlier this month a federal district judge, Nelva Gonzales Ramos, struck down the law, slamming it as a cynical ploy on the part of Republicans to fend off the growing strength of the minority electorate in Texas by "suppressing the overwhelmingly Democratic votes of African Americans and Latinos".
