Sentence examples similar to in ploy from inspiring English sources

Since John Chafee and the first George Bush were at Yale together, I think they both might have gotten a kick out of Lincoln Chafee's write-in ploy.

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

"I think it speaks volumes that the most prominent astronauts were completely uninterested in having any part in this ploy, and I was proud of them for that".

In the same season the clubs were drawn again in the Durham Challenge Cup; in a ploy again to prevent Albion from gaining money from the ticket sales, Sunderland proposed that the gate money be donated to charity.

But when days were darkest for Mr. Kerry, his comrades began rallying around, and in a desperation ploy in a famously antiwar state, the campaign sent them to Iowa, where they helped pull out a victory.

Moreover, recent reports allege that the unmanned drones being used in the strikes are in fact based inside Pakistan, which would suggest a certain Pakistani complicity in the ploy.

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

Recent presidents and Congresses were complicit in the ploy involving the alternative minimum tax.

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

"Five hundred a week is nothing," he told MGM, in one ploy to double his salary.

Their insistence that China wants a "peaceful rise" is intended to calm such worries in America.The ploy is not working.