Sentence examples for calculated ploy from inspiring English sources

However, Robinson says his recent foray into drama wasn't conceived as a calculated ploy to find a new audience.

While the emotional monologues of their coach are sometimes greeted by the Knicks with a wink, an acknowledgment that they understand the message, most felt that today's incident was not a calculated ploy by Van Gundy to light a spark.

Some diplomats and analysts think it may have been a calculated ploy by the Bush administration to force the junta to give the Red Cross access to Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, which had been denied.

In a statement on Tuesday the Rosenbergs' sons said that David and Ruth Greenglass were the ones who passed atomic secrets on to the Soviets, then "pinned what they did on our parents — a calculated ploy to save themselves by fingering our parents as the scapegoats the government demanded".

Afterwards, Peeta is heartbroken when he learns that Katniss's actions in the arena were part of a calculated ploy to earn sympathy from the audience.

Historians have since debated their significance; some claim that Shield and Sword was Hitler's invention, while others say they were a calculated ploy by Model to disguise his true intent to pull back to the Panther Line.

His gaucho clothes, his high rhetorical manner, his refusal of payment for fighting, his habit of withdrawing from public view for long periods, even his "skill in producing displays of prodigious courage" (risking his life, she means), were all calculated P.R. ploys.

But in a six-page brief filed along with its revised remedy proposal this afternoon, the Justice Department called that "just a cynical ploy calculated to raise diversionary issues on appeal".

Obama that is before the pre-Wright fiasco certainly seemed to make an idiot out of Rove's calculated, and cynical ploy to pump him up as the man the GOP could easily zap.

There was more than a touch of eccentricity, even a deliberate musical perversity, which the mature Motian trafficked in, a calculated wrench-in-the-machinery ploy that kept his bandmates and his listeners on their feet.

Whether the calculated revelation is a negotiating ploy by North Korea or a signal that it plans to accelerate its weapons program even as it goes through a perilous leadership change, it creates a new challenge for President Obama at a moment when his program for gradual, global nuclear disarmament appears imperiled at home and abroad.