Sentence examples for but a ploy from inspiring English sources
Gail: I hated the Rev. Wright thing because it was nothing but a ploy to capitalize on some voters' uneasiness about Obama's race.
Bradley looked at his opponent's hand like an uninterested palm reader; he wasn't having any part of the surprise offer: "No, to come here, shake my hand -- that's nothing but a ploy".
Mr. Assange and his supporters claim that the allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against him by two Swedish women are nothing but a ploy to discredit him and make it easier for him to be extradited to the United States to stand trial for facilitating the leak of hundreds of thousands of secret military and diplomatic documents and video recordings.
Why does much of my junk mail have lines of gibberish at the bottom of the message body? A. Those random clumps of nonsense are not the sender's attempt at Dada poetry but a ploy designed to fool spam-filtering programs.
Surely, this is nothing but a ploy to undermine Ukraine's sovereignty, but that is beside the point.
But even then, doubts lingered in Benghazi about whether the news was true: in interviews, residents said they were happy but suspected a ploy by Colonel Qaddafi to win sympathy.
Her opening speech may have looked like an abdication to the untrained eye, but it was a ploy designed to spike the prosecution's guns, and build trust with the jury in her, and in Tsarnaev.
His sense of human reality was certainly defective; at one point, he offered to intercede on behalf of British prisoners of war in Russia, but that was a ploy.
The deal would be the longest contract in N.H.L. history -- "I'll be only 44 at that time," Kovalchuk said Tuesday with a straight face -- but was considered a ploy against the N.H.L.'s salary cap, which limits how much teams can spend on players each season.
Benitez's Chelsea were clearly under orders to get the ball longer and faster to Torres - but it was a ploy greeted with more gratitude by Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany than the striker.
But it was only a ploy to fool the runner, Reddick.
