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.
Most of the night was spent with the three judges teaming up against surlier-than-ever Cowell, whose snide remarks about their mentorship and song choices could be considered a ploy to boost ratings if his peers didn't look so genuinely pissed off (thanks, live television!).
What the hell do we need three toilets for?" He denied that Ryanair was considering the ploy to make a profit from toilet breaks.
As protests gripped Syria in the spring of 2011, the Assad regime began to let men like Abdulrahman and Abboud out of prison, in what many consider a ploy to quickly radicalize and thereby discredit the nascent revolutionary movement.
Her opponents considered it a ploy to deflect criticism of her administration.
A lawyer for the Martin family, Benjamin Crump, called the apology "self-serving" and said he considered it a ploy designed to curry favor with the court and the public and to help secure a release from jail.
Describing Mr. Zimmerman's apology from the stand as "self-serving," Mr. Crump said he considered it a ploy to help win his release from jail and curry favor with the court and the public through the news media.
In what she considered a clear ploy to lure viewers, WMAQ hired Jerry Springer, host of the daytime talk show, as an on-air commentator for the newscast she co-anchored.
On the other hand, Donna Callea from The Daytona Beach News-Journal found this episode disappointing, called Ted Danson's guest reprisal as Sam Malone a ratings ploy, considered Danson's performance apathetic and uncomforting, and saw a reunion between Sam and Frasier Crane not well-executed.
"My sense," one lawyer said, "is a lot of companies will say: 'On the one hand, if I do selective disclosure I will get my wrist slapped, but if I let the earnings forecasts of some analysts remain way out of line, then my stock will get creamed in the market.' " Stephen M. Cutler, the deputy enforcement director at the S.E.C., warned companies not to consider such ploys.
The passionate letters the cardinal received from "Marie Antoinette of France", forged by de la Motte, were an ill-considered ploy when funds ran low.
