I have always assumed, however, that this is basically a fund-raising ploy.
It is also a campaign fund-raising ploy, because Wall Street will reward the opponents of reform.
He gained his first notoriety when, as a fund-raising ploy, he created a ballet that involved 12 dancers dressed as posters, each advertising a product, and each given a three-minute solo.
Rick A. Lazio, still saddled with a million-dollar debt from his failed run for the United States Senate, has turned to an old fund-raising ploy: invoking the name of his rival.
According to one story, he got bored talking to people he already knew on Skype; according to another, it was a fund-raising ploy for a bike trip from Moscow to Amsterdam.
He has always said he will play in England for his entire footballing life and his seeming willingness to leave Old Trafford – which must be tempered by the possibility that this development is part of a negotiating ploy – raises the question of which other clubs he would leave for.
The ploy raises fresh questions of conflict of interest, as Trump defiantly hangs onto his sprawling business interests while in office.
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.
Although individuals can exaggerate their body size using ploys such as raising their hair or adopting flattering colour patterns, the deceptive advantage derived from such exaggerators will be evolutionarily short-lived because they will rapidly spread to fixation (Maynard Smith & Harper, 2003).
The article said that Iraq's chief objection to the arms inspectors is that there is no time limit on their snooping, raising Iraqi fears that they are merely a ploy to keep the country under sanctions indefinitely.
Raising a furor over Syrian refugees could also be a ploy to reinforce Moscow's alliance with Damascus dictator Bashar Al-Assad.
