Sentence examples for by ploy from inspiring English sources

He wrote, "Each one of us can, by ploy or gambit, most naturally gain the advantage".

The movie suggests that Americans deserve to be spun by ploys like this; they're too weak-minded, too distractible, not to be taken.

Correlation between breath sound recordings and regional distribution of pulmonary ventilation has been previously established, particularly in studies conducted by Ploy-Song-Sang and colleagues and other groups who compared acoustic findings with data obtained with radioactive gases [ 1- 3].

And then there is the damning-by-implication ploy (Sarah Palin is a real American, so that must mean you are not).

Completely baffled by this ploy, Belarus left Jonny Evans in blissful isolation.

Two years later, an estimated one million Chinese were taken in by a ploy involving ant farms used to produce an alleged aphrodisiac.

Companies like Chipotle have launched "Anti-GMO" campaigns, and many of us are fooled by this ploy.

Many Taiwanese, including the pro-independence opposition party, fear that the proposed accord is really a ploy by China to bring about unification by stealth.

In decades gone by, developing nations tended to see the issue as a ploy by rich countries to avoid talking about unsustainable consumption.

First, a public consultation swiftly described by one MP as "axe-factor" politics, and as "essentially a PR ploy" by Lord Lawson, a former Conservative chancellor.

General Powell himself seems less than troubled by these ploys.