Sentence examples for offensive ploy from inspiring English sources
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.
It's a cheap and offensive ploy to shame those who do genuinely care into reserving their precious sympathy.
Islam Alloush, a spokesman for Jaysh al-Islam, one of the most powerful rebel groups in Syria and a key faction in the Aleppo offensive, said the proposal was a propaganda ploy but that the group would cooperate with any plan to deliver humanitarian aid to Aleppo.
Mr. Liu's wife, Liu Xia, has been held incommunicado since news of the award broke last month, and the government has been waging a muscular offensive to rebrand the prize as a Western ploy to undermine the Chinese Communist Party's hold on power.
The religious right accused its critics of "hijacking" the Malala incident to further their western, secular objectives - declaring it a ploy to justify a possible army offensive in the Taliban-controlled tribal region of North Waziristan.
Other government ministers called it a "trap" and a ploy to regroup and launch fresh offensives.Despite vast military gains, Kilinochchi, the Tigers' administrative headquarters, remains a difficult target.
The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, launched a sustained attack on the new Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday, deriding his recent charm offensive with western leaders as a "ruse and a ploy" that was designed to fool the international community into dropping its guard against Iran's development of nuclear weapons.
The government has been waging an offensive to rebrand the prize — which comes with a medal and $1.5 million — as a Western ploy to undermine the Chinese Communist Party's hold on power.
Another negotiating ploy?
