The ploy worked well enough for Queen Victoria to choose it as Canada's capital in 1857.
Under pressure Come on, try getting excited Unrolling stock Self-strangulation Europe's heavyweight weakling ReprintsThe government has chosen to extend the referendum over two days in the hope of attracting more voters: a similar ploy worked well in next-door Lithuania last month, where a two-day referendum drew a 63% turnout and a 91% yes vote.
And Dan Snyder's dedication to "Redskins" might be a cynical ploy as well – raising the outrage stakes so high that he can blackmail concerned citizens and football fans into building a replacement for his only 17-year-old stadium in exchange for relinquishing the name.
The ploy worked well for them for 44 minutes - and they even had a decent chance very early on for Custodio - but it made for a tedious game to watch.
Frazier Moore from The Associated Press called Sam's appearance a ratings ploy, as well, but a must-see for a Cheers fan and any other viewer who lacks interest on the show Frasier.
First with "Weeds" and now with "Orange Is the New Black," the television writer and producer Jenji Kohan has proved herself the master of an odd but successful narrative ploy: putting well-behaved middle-class white women in the middle of stories that typically feature rough nonwhite men.
But although Lord Lawson may not be altogether wrong to describe this as a "PR ploy", it could well be a useful and important PR ploy to secure political acceptance for some very grim decisions to come.
According to Williams's friend, the journalist Herbert Boyd, "The ploy worked so well that soon after black folks all over New York City were talking about 'the plan' — a fictitious plot that many thought was true".
Or, if he's trying to seduce them, his house looks ever so slightly messy, so as to suggest that if a girl comes over she will think that there is a 'place' for her, that it needs a 'woman's touch".' Told of the ploy, Zanuck says, "Well, that's why somebody occasionally throws a bottle through his window".
The talks next month will reveal whether Sudan considers that it has shown enough already.The pact between Congo and Rwanda, which was struck in Pretoria this week after hasty talks, seems even more obviously to be a ploy in a well-established game of bluff.
