Sentence examples for ploy over from inspiring English sources

On one level, you could dismiss it as just posturing, a bargaining ploy over the years meant to wrest something new from the city — tax breaks or a stadium.

The ploy has worked over and over again, and now everyone seems petrified of being tagged with this label.

The 1972 vodka toast by Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein to the dead Stravinsky; the connection of dance and architecture; the company's treasuries of ballets by Balanchine and Robbins: these and others have become ploys over the years.

The town plans to try its ploy again over the summer.

It barely matters that her promise is, as some Socialists are hinting, just an electoral ploy meant to paper over divisions in the French left over Europe.

Also be aware that these may be ploys to win you over, despite yourself.

Some commentators have said this has been a Labour ploy to win over the British Jewish vote, by stirring up fear of Polish antisemitism.

Recently he has taken to heaping blame on the European Central Bank for France's self-inflicted failings.Such economic populism may merely be a ploy to win over an electorate that has long been averse to the market.

As our Internet cafe ploy became routine over several months, I found myself in the strange position of being not just a chaperone but a secret advocate for romance.

When Larry Ellison's Oracle-BMW team docked its barge at the end of its base, its next-door neighbors, the Italian team Prada, sued, charging the barge was a ploy to peek over the walls and get a glimpse of Prada's secret goings-on.

I don't share the concern that this is Coinbase's ploy to "take over" Bitcoin — that would be very, very difficult.