Sentence examples for like ploys from inspiring English sources
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will probably be unable to achieve this, given the suspicions she raised in previous attempts at constitutional "reform", which looked to her opponents like ploys to keep herself in power beyond the end of her mandate in 2010.
Harm reduction products, on the other hand, seem like ploys.
If youd like to help charity as well as your kids (and your lawyers), theres another GRAT-like ploy that benefits from low interest rates: the charitable lead annuity trust.
Or was it a publicity courtship, a stunt to maximise box office returns, like the ploys of the studios back in the days of Rock Hudson?
The movie suggests that Americans deserve to be spun by ploys like this; they're too weak-minded, too distractible, not to be taken.
With the online health care arena crowded with popular, well-financed sites like Healtheon/WebMD hlth and DrKoop.com koop, Bid for Surgery looks a bit like a ploy to draw attention to Medicine Online's struggling health care community.
"This looks like a ploy by opposition parties to cause embarrassment to the president".
The bookies like the ploy: Germany's odds are tumbling from 250-1 to 33-1.
But that move seems like another ploy to buy time as he tries to beat Syrians into submission.
And Hilary's back story feels almost like a ploy to create a character deserving of sympathy.
In the estimation of Afghan and American investigators, Mr. Farnood's theft, like his ploy with the American investigators, was the act of a gambler.
