Sentence examples for strategic ploy from inspiring English sources

The city's parks commissioner, Adrian Benepe, dismissed the idea that talking about a shutdown was a strategic ploy.

He did want the notion to get around, as a strategic ploy, that if provoked by a foreign aggressor, he might respond disproportionately.

Whether it truly intends to set its sights on AOL is unclear because it needs to talk to AOL at the very least as a strategic ploy to try to thwart any possible deal between Yahoo and AOL (which has always been a possibility in the background).

Some observers believe that the appointments are a strategic ploy, a smokescreen for co-opting middle and right elements.

I suspect the infamous letter was PTM's strategic ploy to create a media firestorm and public platform to get a book deal, a radio show, speaking engagements and fame and fortune.

The words "Đại Minh" were interpreted as either having arbitrarily been copied from local Chinese Vietnamese secret society slogans, or as a strategic ploy to invoke the names of the Ming Dynasty to appeal to the Chinese who had emigrated to Vietnam after the fall of the Ming.

Even when the Clippers managed to stay within striking distance down the stretch, Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich countered with one of his more unseemly – though no less strategic – ploys by repeatedly sending the poor-shooting Reggie Evans to the free-throw line.

There is also a lingering apprehension among the tribal people that the state government would use the bills as a strategic political ploy to gain access over their land.

Yet it makes Afghanistan too reliant on one good man, who risks assassination daily, and whose weak strategic vision the ploy typifies.

Likewise, Razak's coziness with Beijing is more likely to be a tactical ploy than a strategic realignment.

Analysts note that Google's digital wallet is at once a strategic move and a public relations ploy.