Sentence examples for control ploy from inspiring English sources

My suspicion is that by confessing at the outset to having operated a "big lie," Madoff was trying a damage control ploy to absorb all of the legal heat so that his family might avoid prosecution and a forfeiture of their vast assets.

At worst, it was making light of birth control sabotage, a ploy abusers use to trap a woman in a toxic relationship.

The consortium denied, however, that the work permit troubles were a ploy to gain control.

He claims the accusation was a ploy to get control of the apartment and the children.

China says that it wants to better manage Tibetan religious freedom provided in the constitution; but its critics reject this claim as a distortion of traditional religion and a cynical ploy to take control over the next Dalai Lama.

Some see the granting of one-fifth of the voting rights to the foundation as a ploy to keep control: although public shareholders will wield four-fifths of the votes, near-unanimity will be required for some decisions.The sceptics are also worried about MasterCard's competitive position.

A crucial ploy was to keep control of voter rolls.

But the US sees the Chinese effort as a ploy to dilute US control of the banking system, and has persuaded regional allies such as Australia, South Korea and Japan to stay out of the bank.

Another Matlin ploy is to gain a controlling position by gobbling up the majority of the debt, thus giving him command of the creditors committee, which decides who gets what in the restructuring.

First is a cascade of companies a ploy particularly favoured by Italians to gain control of a larger group.

It may be a risky ploy, perhaps as leverage to retain control of oil-rich Kirkuk, a disputed city that Kurdish Peshmerga fighters seized in mid-June after the Iraqi Army fled.