Sentence examples for ploy to undermine from inspiring English sources

Dr. Lynch's fantasy was a ploy to undermine the zombie argument.

Like the Iranian president, Putin suggested that the contents of the cables are part of deliberate ploy to undermine his country.

"There are some people who believe that this bespeaks a certain kind of disdain for organized labor, or is just some Republican ploy to undermine the unions," Jennifer Bradley, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, told me.

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.

Seventh, we should play Chinese opera with China, which will think that all of this disarmament talk is just a ploy to undermine everyone else, because America already has better weapons.

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.

Does Bashir's announcement truly represent a more conciliatory approach, or is it simply a ploy by Bashir to undermine his opposition?

He said: "This is yet another cynical ploy by the management to undermine our victims group.

What began as a ploy by the Afrikaner government to undermine the ANC became, instead, a serious negotiation – thanks, in part, to Young's calm ingenuity.

[Wall Street Journal] Some political rivals say the latest candidate to enter a tight four-way Democratic primary for a Queens Congressional seat is a ploy by the party establishment to undermine them.

Some characterise his motives as a ploy designed to manipulate the religiously inclined and warn that it could be used to undermine the country's version of Islamic democracy.