Sentence examples for shrewd ploy from inspiring English sources
It is difficult to tell if it is just because Corbyn himself is a bit lukewarm or if it is a shrewd ploy.
Political observers commented that the attacks on North Indians by MNS were a "shrewd ploy" of their chief Raj to embarrass the Shiv Sena and usurp its core Marathi constituency.
The bone of contention is the plan announced in this month's budget by the finance minister, Charlie McCreevy, to shift eight government departments (over half the total) and some 10,300 civil servants out of the capital by 2007.The relocation plan was greeted by some as a shrewd political ploy.
(The logo was designed by the pop artist James Rosenquist; along with Jeff Koons, Robert Rauschenberg and others, he also designed one of the espresso cup and saucer sets that Illy sells. These scientists are businessmen and not at all above the shrewd marketing ploy).
In truth it is a shrewd, if shameless, ploy by a power couple who know that the value of their brand is tanking.
Using this emotional distress is a shrewd producer's ploy: while glamorous dates offer the illusion that viewers want to believe in, relationships gone wrong become the link to reality everyone can relate to.
Add a shrewd box-office ploy that pairs a dancer from the Boston Ballet with a Soviet star from either the Kirov or the Bolshoi in seven different leading casts through May 20, and it is obvious why this "glasnost 'Swan Lake,' " as it has been nicknamed, is attracting national attention and sellout crowds.
It prompts the ever-shrewd Sangakkara to stand up to the stumps, a ploy we've seen the Lankan's exercise brilliantly throughout this Cup.
A shrewd gamester who made his personal fortune designing computer games, he follows sound police procedures and devises one intricate ploy after another to draw out the killers -- all the while fending off three (count 'em, three) beauties who would love to run their fingers over his scars.
Of course this could all be a shrewd businessman skillfully trying to squeeze out an even huger salary, but Mr. Cowell said anyone dismissing this as some kind of negotiating ploy does not know him very well.
