Sentence examples for long ploy from inspiring English sources

The critical experimental evidence behind such a view is that synthesized long ploy (A T) tracts disfavor nucleosome occupancy in vitro (Iyer and Struhl 1995).

The poly-T stretch in the primer is broken by inserting a Cytosine to minimize the potential sequencing problems due to the presence of a long ploy-A homopolymer stretch.

I believe this is a natural result of a long-running ploy by Republican party leaders to play on the most base convictions of conservative voters in order to solidify their support.

Obama was surprised, guessing that it was a long-shot ploy to "blunt the 'change thing'" and "create some buzz".

This kind of brinkmanship, long a standard ploy in the negotiations of major American orchestras, often works.

He consulted a patent attorney who said that the application would have to present the software within a machine and that the odds were long that the ploy would succeed.

Some species of fish may have mastered this ploy long ago, according to research presented here on 20 July at the Animal Behavior Society meeting.

Investors may already be getting around the French FTT via futures and other derivatives, ploys long used to circumvent Britain's share-purchase tax.

Trident, the third runway or post office privatisation are mere positioning in some illusory business-pleasing ploy, their long-term damage far outweighing one day's headlines.

However, supporters of the 1990 term limits law characterize the initiative as only the latest in a long line of desperate ploys by politicians to undo the will of the people.

Calls are automatically routed first to those workers who keep callers on the line the longest, with scripted ploys like pretending to see -- very slowly -- winning Lotto numbers.