Sentence examples for negotiating ploy from inspiring English sources

Another negotiating ploy?

As a negotiating ploy, it failed miserably.

Balderdash, retorts Axel Springer.Even if Axel Springer's announcement is a negotiating ploy, its timing is a blow to Kirch.

Some Western officials and diplomats interpreted Iran's mixed signals as a negotiating ploy ahead of next week's nuclear talks.

And inside G.M. some executives questioned whether Mr. Ergen's bid was serious or just a negotiating ploy against Mr. Murdoch.

Maybe Phillips continued talking about a $95 million ceiling as a negotiating ploy in his subtle chase of Gonzalez.

I don't know whether it's just the owner or the team negotiating, using us as a negotiating ploy out on Long Island".

I don't hold any grudges". Martínez still says the Red Sox smeared his image as a negotiating ploy to lower his value.

"It was a negotiating ploy of the Metropolitan Opera Association," said Cecil S. Ashdown, a longtime member, using the Met's formal name.

But that appears to be more a negotiating ploy than a truly attractive option that the board is considering seriously, the executives said.

When Minichiello winged his way across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1969, seizing a plane was viewed as a relatively harmless negotiating ploy — an inconvenience to everyone involved, for sure, but not a crime likely to result in death or destruction.