Sentence examples for ploy used from inspiring English sources

Our Third Avenue correspondent has informed us of a new ploy used to get the upper hand in nostalgic conversations.

The New Yorker, July 2 , 1955P. 17 Our Third Avenue correspondent has informed us of a new ploy used to get the upper hand in nostalgic conversations.

It is the most ambitious car now… Our Third Avenue correspondent has informed us of a new ploy used to get the upper hand in nostalgic conversations.

One is a legitimate ploy used by presidents of both parties.

(One good ploy used by "The Financial Lives of the Poets" is to keep redefining "sensible" as it goes along).

"Show your true colors" refers to a ploy used to get close an enemy ship, by intentionally showing another country's flag.

A spokesman for the World Cup organizing committee said the vests were an "abominable moneymaking ploy using fear tactics".

Equally, as a supporter of gay marriage myself, I find it hard to believe his attendance at this wedding would be viewed as anything other than a rather grotesque and cynical ploy, using his friend's marriage as a political tool to try and broaden his appeal.

The two apparently were trying to shield gains from the 2001 sale of the big Minneapolis broker/dealer to Royal Bank of Canada when they paid $875,000 for a ploy using foreign currency options to create paper losses.

Part exchange is one of a number of marketing ploys used by developers; others include paying buyers' stamp duty, providing white goods or paying moving costs.

Criminals post malicious links on them either to distribute junk mail ("spam") for online pharmacies peddling phoney Viagra and the like, or to redirect visitors to fraudulent websites where they get infected with malicious Javascripts.Of the various marketing ploys used in business to promote websites, the most controversial is a technique known as search-engine optimisation.