Sentence examples for ploy to avoid from inspiring English sources

Or, as the prosecution believes, is it all a ploy to avoid conviction?

It was a desperate ploy to avoid having his nose bloodied yet again, and it worked.

Lawyers for the smokers have challenged those efforts, saying they are a ploy to avoid a big judgment.

Johansson, Hayatou and others saw that as a ploy to avoid the audit's being completed before May's election.

Hands may also regret pushing so hard to have the case heard in New York, a ploy to avoid jeopardising his non-domicile tax status.

The unavoidable conclusion is that the delay is an administration ploy to avoid Republican charges of "job killing" regulations, while placating the auto industry, which opposes the rule as too expensive.

Officials have said he was too weak to be jailed, but many Egyptians see his illnesses as ploys to avoid prosecution.

The link between Lynton Crosby and the tax haven could make uncomfortable reading for the prime minister, who has described legal ploys to avoid tax as morally wrong.

But I suspect that the Inland Revenue, Britain's tax authority, will jump very heavily on anyone trying to use clumsy ploys to avoid the tax, like redefining employment as partnerships or nominal relocation of place of work.

The breach between the Giuliani administration and the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association widened yesterday as each side accused the other of using feints and public relations ploys to avoid seriously negotiating a new labor contract.

Politicians and pundits have said the moves amount to little more than unpatriotic ploys to avoid paying taxes.