Sentence examples for delaying ploys from inspiring English sources

Would she let Sharapova's tic-driven mannerisms and maddening delaying ploys get to her? No. "That's where I need to focus on myself," she said.

The ploy of delaying the declaration until one over into the evening session, preventing any leeway for England's openers to adjust mentally from toil to new-ball pressure, perhaps affected Adam Lyth.

The Japanese reckon Chinese talk about cancelling or delaying the project is just a negotiating ploy.

The ruling party's ploy ended nearly 24 hours of delaying tactics by the opposition, which plans more when the full upper house takes up the bills.

The first hint of Mr. Elles's ploy came in October 2009, when Carter's announced that it was delaying third-quarter results, causing shares in the company to plummet more than 20 percent.

The delays are partly a ploy by Mr Brown and Mr Hoon to show they are taking objections to expansion very seriously – the official line for delaying a decision until January was to take full account of the 70,000 responses to the consultation on Heathrow expansion received by the Department for Transport.

Bush administration officials have dismissed the concessions as a ploy to delay a possible attack and to avoid actually disarming.

Supporters of the Volcker Rule say that is a ploy to delay it until after the 2012 election, which may end the Democratic control of the Senate and the White House.

He also took pains to explain that allowing inspectors in with no realistic chance they would disarm Iraq would only play into Baghdad's "ploy" to delay tougher measures.

That tactic, which even gained support among some high-level regulators, was seen by some as a ploy to delay the rule-writing process until after the 2012 election, which might end the Democratic control of the Senate and the White House.

Demonstrators say government plans for a census are a ploy to delay elections.