Sentence examples for ploy without from inspiring English sources

McConnell's pledge is "clearly inadequate, an empty promise, a transparent ploy without any commitment to making dreamers legislation part of a must-pass bill," Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn). said in an interview with CNN.

Her mother dismissed the charge as " a foolish campaign ploy without a shadow of foundation". Against the Clevelands' wishes, Frances Folsom Cleveland's image appeared on numerous campaign paraphernalia, such as flags, posters, handbills, plates, ribbons, handkerchiefs, napkins, and playing cards.

I'm not sure which aspect is the most chilling: that a ruling party used federal antiterrorism forces to support a power grab, that Texas Democrats had to resort to civil disobedience to thwart the move, or that a similar redistricting ploy went off without a hitch in Colorado.

Justice Tysoe found, as the tribunal had, that a step taken by the governor of San Luis Potosí, designating the site of the plant as an ecological reserve, was really a ploy to block the plant without having to compensate Metalclad.

One speaker is lucid about an addict's inability to remain long in working life; another, who has kicked the habit, looks back with wistful pride at the drama of her streetwise survival capers; a third details and then demonstrates his ploy for robbing convenience stores without violence.

This is a common ploy just to get people to sign up without doing their research.

It is heartening to find Mr. Loy applying his considerable skills in so concentrated a manner without relying on the kind of deconstructive ploy that marred his staging of Strauss's "Frau ohne Schatten" at the Salzburg Festival last summer.

Martin displayed anger that Jamail or someone had acted without "authority" (whether real or another negotiation ploy is anybody's guess).

This ploy a great way to get your point across without being rude.

Evans and Bart thus had to come up with a ploy to sell Paramount's president, Stanley Jaffe, a Sicilian Mob film without a name filmmaker attached.

One Big 12 official described the threat of a suit as a ploy to slow the process and allow the Big 12 to recalibrate without Texas A&M.