Sentence examples for canny ploy from inspiring English sources
WHEN Cristina Fernández de Kirchner selected a turncoat member of the opposition Radical party as her running-mate in her successful campaign for Argentina's presidency last year, the choice looked like a canny ploy to win votes beyond her Peronist party's working-class base.
Maybe it's a canny ploy in the hope that next week UKIP will then exceed predictions.
It was a canny ploy, and a guy who seemed to be in charge told me that they were going to use me as a bargaining chip if it turned into a stand-off with the police.
The newcomer Prince Royce arrives with a canny power ploy: an airy, fetching bilingual version of Ben E. King's "Stand by Me" (Top Stop).
When hundreds of thousands are unable to afford the basics – contending with Value corn flakes, baked beans and simple white bread – the rest are falling for less-than-canny sales ploys to make them buy more than they need.
As a marketing ploy, Destination Spanish (and its cousins, Destinations French and Italian) could not be cannier.
Another negotiating ploy?
Canny survivor Euro-apartheid?
