Sentence examples for sort of ploy from inspiring English sources
Michel hesitated to answer, suspicious that it might be some sort of ploy, but just as the man was about to leave the room he raised his hand and said he knew calligraphy.
Only eleven days later, on December 30th, he brought in thumping tax rises on income, savings and property.It was the sort of ploy Mr Rajoy's Socialist predecessor, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (who preferred indirect taxes), never dared to make, not least because Mr Rajoy's right-wing People's Party (PP) would have accused him of bleeding middle-class wage-earners dry.
Admittedly, it was a sort of ploy to keep Crew Labs afloat—"A marketing budget?
"So it's really a question of 'why not?' instead of 'why?' This isn't some sort of ploy for us.
And everyone on Facebook has the same sort of marketing ploy selling their image.
I think that's some sort of psychological ploy to make you keep going, but it really got on my nerves.
In my younger, redder days, I believed that qualities of "competence" and "credibility" were some sort of elitist ploy, words invented by Tories to discredit any leftwing political project.
Goulding's comments on Hackney council's PSPO measures were in no way subjected to hyperbole when labelled a "scathing attack" by the Evening Standard, while others have condescendingly dismissed Beyoncé's plight for female empowerment as some sort of marketing ploy.
Obama's Afghanistan withdrawal plan was denounced as some sort of political ploy by some Republicans, who noted that the schedule conveniently pulls these troops out right before next year's election.
It's not any kind of ploy to sell clothing.
