Sentence examples for main ploy from inspiring English sources

City's main ploy at the start involved Fernandinho dropping into defence to flip a pass over the top and into the run of Jesús Navas on the right.

Members of the Senate have approved the guts of a bill to implement the plan's first phase, to suppress the upper house's power to block or distort legislation.Mr Renzi's main ploy for boosting growth has been a €80 ($107) monthly tax break for lower-paid workers.

He said scam artists have admitted in interviews that their main ploy is to get their intended victim "under the ether," or in a heightened emotional state that puts them off kilter.

But for a time it concealed its failure -- sustaining its stock price, as it turned out, just long enough for Mr. Bush to sell most of his stake at a large profit -- with an accounting trick identical to one of the main ploys used by Enron a decade later.

So instead the manager may be tempted to talk up the case for sticking with Thuram, which can be summarised thus: despite his age Thuram had been immaculate for France until the Holland game; Italy have no one with Arjen Robben's pace to expose him; in fact, the Azzurri's main offensive ploy is to cross for the head of Luca Toni, so Thuram should cope.

The hosts' main tactical ploy was to target the right side of Chelsea's defense and free up either Gael Clichy or David Silva on the overlap to launch a cross on to the head of one of their powerful on-rushing midfielders.

That low tax rate came on top of Apple's ploy of saying its three main Irish subsidiaries are not tax resident anywhere.

Afghanistan, in the main, would be left to its own devices, a ploy now known as "Chaos-istan".

With this in mind, critics have asked what practical help a book like "Wetlands" can offer, and even whether, by hyper-sexualizing the main character, it represents an all-too-familiar commercial ploy rather than a step forward.

Mr Kulov was jailed for theft and abuse of power in 2001, in what his supporters said was a ploy by Mr Akayev to neutralise the influence of his main rival.

Joe returned to the main point, which was that Carter's statement were ultimately a marking ploy, yes? "You are saying it with a little less subtlety than I did," said Cheney, smiling.