Sentence examples for happy ploy from inspiring English sources

Alas this happy ploy is more or less confined to countries such as Sweden, where ministers resign for forgetting to pay television-licence fees, and members of parliament perch in tiny, state-owned bedsits while working in the capital: 72% of Danes and 66% of Swedes duly told a 2010 Eurobarometer poll they trusted national parliaments.

But even then, doubts lingered in Benghazi about whether the news was true:  in interviews, residents said they were happy but suspected a ploy by Colonel Qaddafi to win sympathy.

In the locker room, Bruschi emotionally defended Belichick, the Patriots and the owner Robert K. Kraft — who was not happy with the embarrassment Belichick's ploys brought to the franchise — and handed Belichick the game ball.

Intuit's program sounds like a radio station ploy: Bring someone's rèsumè to designated Friday happy-hour parties and you get movie and restaurant vouchers and a shot at a $1,000 weekend getaway.

It's obviously a shameless ploy to promote the show, and Netflix itself by tugging at the heartstrings and potentially invoking some happy tears.

Now, in a blog titled "What's Sauce for the Goose", the leader of Lancashire Secular Humanists has pledged to wear his "Happy Human" and "Atheist A" badges in response to what Mr Abbot refers to as "barmy Cardinal Keith O'Brien's latest ploy".

It was a ploy".

Another negotiating ploy?

The ploy worked.

Coincidence or ploy?

Byrd was a ploy.