Sentence examples for debate ploy from inspiring English sources
Two months ago, Cragg Hines of The Houston Chronicle wrote that "Gore has repeatedly tried the weekly debate ploy against Bradley, who has refused to take the bait".
Obama here didn't point out to the audience that Clinton was using a standard conservative debating ploy, but he instead simply accepted her conservative and false framing of this issue, and then proceeded to weaken his own progressive proposal into confusing mush, so as to make it harder for her to attack, yet without his actually defending it.
And by treating the debate-postponement ploy as a detail, he slipped the trap McCain had set for him: either be bullied into obeying McCain's order or be seen as putting politics above country.
The man who said he was above "ploys" and "tactics," like Mr. Gore's challenge to a series of debates, used a ploy to distract from his imminent loss in New Hampshire by releasing his own version of that challenge just before the polls closed.
The ever tone-deaf Kerry failed to hear how awkward that moment was, and he later re-upped the stupid ploy in his debate with Bush.
Advertisements on Iraq have started to crop up in local races and Republicans are circulating Democratic votes in the resolution before the 1991 Gulf war (most voted against).This is a risky ploy because domestic debates about war have not usually been partisan affairs: politics is supposed to stop at the water's edge.
The Clintonistas went into Super Tuesday with the air of people expecting defeat.Mrs Clinton tried to set up a series of "face to face" debates with Mr Obama the classic ploy of a losing candidate.
Appearing on CNN, Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, blasted the Clinton campaign's invitation of Trump as "a blatant ploy to rig the debate".
It's an old legislative ploy designed to squelch debate and force politicians to vote for wasteful -- or even terrible -- measures just because they don't want to be painted as being against God, country, and disaster relief.
If it was a ploy designed to cool the Barkley debate, the end result was exactly the opposite.
