Sentence examples for diplomatic ploy from inspiring English sources

"This is a global diplomatic ploy by the Russians to take down a perceived area of U.S. military advantage".

The offer to reunite the churches had been made as a diplomatic ploy to previous popes by previous emperors, but never in such compelling circumstances.

This is a diplomatic ploy based on the principle: "If you won't let me use your roller skates, you can't use my tennis racket Cass County, Miss., is off limits to Russians.

These contradictions and interactions are not lacking in seriousness and are not just a diplomatic ploy.

It avoids some of the diplomatic ploys of the big powers that beleaguer the international mechanisms.

Washington, London and Paris suspect that Iran's diplomatic outreach is a ploy for buying time.

Mr Omar's ban may have been a cynical ploy to win diplomatic recognition, but it caused production to plummet and the price of opium to quadruple in a few months.

They use endless ploys to gain access to diplomatic missions, from vaulting over a wall or pushing through a gate to posing as a Chinese citizen applying for a visa.

The announcement by Russian cultural and museum officials that Russia will withhold temporary art loans to American museums on the pretext that the art might be seized to enforce a Holocaust restitution judgment by a United States district court is a ploy to use art loans as diplomatic weapons against our country.

Experts tell the China Daily that Mr Abe is using a "media ploy" to "give the impression of a diplomatic initiative".

Many Israelis have come to see human rights discourse as nothing but a cynical ploy used by Israel's enemies to score diplomatic points.