Sentence examples similar to policy ploy from inspiring English sources

William Donohue, president of the conservative Catholic League, called the new policy a "ploy" and said Catholics "will only be impelled to revolt".

I know, the presumptive Republican candidate is trying to become president, facing a cool incumbent who does have a laser focus, so his words — I was going to say rhetoric — are less prescriptions for future policy than ploys for gaining power.

But some lawmakers called the policy proposals a ploy intended to win votes before the general election.

Critics asserted in the aftermath of Bo's removal that the "Striking Black" campaign against organized crime and corruption may have been policy a "political ploy designed to cast a negative light on his predecessor and political opponent, Wang Yang, and take advantage of popular resentment against corruption".

Earlier Thursday, Andrew M. Cuomo, the New York attorney general, had contacted Ticketmaster about the policy, which seemed a ploy to secure a bigger home-field advantage.

Their stated pessimism about the cost of climate policy is essentially a political ploy rather than a reasoned economic judgment.

Officials say the long-term policy implications of Walker's ploy far outweigh the professional or even personal damage the governor has incurred.

According to historian David Mayers, Kennan argued that Tito's perceived pro-Soviet policy was in fact a ploy to "buttress Khrushchev's position within the Politburo against hardliners opposed to improving relations with the West and against China, which was pushing for a major Soviet U.S. showdown".

But from the panoply of prospective Republican presidential candidates, many of whom have engaged in "fact-finding missions" in the Middle East before the Egyptian crisis (a transparent, if time-honoured, ploy to bolster foreign policy credentials), the silence is deafening.

Despite the fast-changing geo-political allegiances in the Asia-Pacific region is the fact that the post World War II policy of "containment" remains a popular ploy in today's global political chess game.

For the longest time, Arabs and Muslims have rightly complained that labeling them anti-Semitic for legitimate criticism of Israeli policy was the Israeli government's ploy to shield itself from accountability.