Sentence examples for good ploy from inspiring English sources

But in terms of marketing, it was a good ploy".

Formalism, I think, was a good ploy, a strategy for stripping away a lot of things.

(One good ploy used by "The Financial Lives of the Poets" is to keep redefining "sensible" as it goes along).

All things in moderation is a good ploy, though, bearing in mind the bulk of her diet is likely to bring significant benefits in terms of health and wellbeing.

They went to Africa in order for him to carry out a project on Bantu tribes, but Joseph told me that he wonders whether his father's Italian mentor might have also thought it a good ploy for getting the married Jewish couple away from the dangers of Italy in the mid-1930s.

Clive Anderson (writer) It was a good ploy to give it that title, it had the feeling that it was a topical, news-based programme, that we were so clever we could make jokes about things that only happened last week - and nobody noticed that that was true of only about three jokes in the show, that 25 minutes of it was things like a man in a gorilla suit talking about David Attenborough..

Douglas Decker, the head of convertibles research at Barclays, says, "Convertibles are a good ploy in today's European markets.

The company insists that the recent outpouring is not just a feel-good ploy, but a smart investment for a bank that counts among its customers 1.2m people and tens of thousands of businesses in Southeast Michigan.

He also recognized that here, in the selling of finished goods, was something potentially far more significant than the "fair trade" purchasing of third-world beans that the coffee giants like to announce as a feel-good ploy on their packaging.

"I think it's quite a good marketing ploy".

But the period of the contract is finite (24 years) – a poor deal, if a good dramatic ploy.