Sentence examples for in a ploy from inspiring English sources

A few rude and skeptical questions are tossed in, a ploy to make the film seem more balanced.

I think it's frozen," Alex moaned, in a ploy for maternal sympathy.

When he was 13, Mr. Santos joined a church choir in a ploy to meet girls.

Fox maintained a critical embargo until the week of the movie's release in a ploy cynics have suggested was designed to limit negative coverage.

The fevered attempt to create such a block, in a ploy hatched with the Japanese bank Nomura, looks to have come too late.

In presenting itself as a savior to struggling travel agents, some competitors said, Orbitz might partly be engaged in a ploy to divide and conquer the opposition.

But some saw in this a ploy to put pressure on all parties to reach some sort of agreement.

That happened live on Thursday from a CBS soundstage in Los Angeles, a ploy that helped preserve secrecy but only enhanced the fakery of the project.

Hands may also regret pushing so hard to have the case heard in New York, a ploy to avoid jeopardising his non-domicile tax status.

Another potentially clever part of Kreditech's BIG DATA play is the way its B2C micro-loans offering seems to be, in part, a ploy to validate and feed into the tech powering its B2B credit scoring service.

This was apparently in part a ploy by de Grasse to ensure the British would not interfere with de Barras' arrival.