Sentence examples for a ploy which from inspiring English sources
His support was boosted by a misguided government effort to bar him from standing by pressing contempt of court charges, a ploy which collapsed on May 4th.
In the most recent federal election, Stephen Harper's Conservatives mused about restricting the niqab, a ploy which actually seemed to help them in the polls, for a time.
Brazil has, indeed, used the threat of compulsory licensing to wring price discounts out of drug companies, a ploy which the commission, somewhat controversially, supports.The problem is what to do with countries which have no drug makers.
When the Observer stuck a copy of Mulholland Dr. on to its paper to increase circulation – a ploy which worked in my instance – the website offered a synchronised deconstruction-cum-explanation of every scene in the film, to be read while you watched it.
Rather, it may simply become a ploy which permits maintaining the excessive consumption of some countries and sectors".
The intriguing far-future setting is presented to the reader piecemeal through Arafuma's perceptions, a skilful ploy which not only heightens tension but builds a tantalising picture of a universe to be explored in subsequent volumes.
Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of the BHP Billiton mining group, told the Financial Times this week: "I think there is a marketing ploy, which is 'give up coal and burn more gas'.
City also suffered reputational damage when the club failed UEFA's Financial Fair Play test last year because of attempts to claim £40m earnings from image rights and intellectual property rights – an accounting ploy which the governing body took a very dim view of.
Among the latter, some maintain that it was a brilliant political ploy, which has resulted in Brown looking generous and inclusive thereby belying those negative voter perceptions of him as a brooding, secretive control freak.
It is a cynical political ploy which aims at spreading transit crumbs throughout the County with the primary goal of winning votes, not increasing mobility.
It's located in a ridiculously beautiful corner of Devon, so the picture on the bottle turned out not to be a bullshit marketing ploy, which I found strangely heartening.
