Sentence examples for successful ploy from inspiring English sources

"It has been a successful ploy".

Another successful ploy between 1998-2002 involved sheltering £400m in the Cayman Islands, wiping £9m from its tax bill in one year alone.

And lastly the insurgents are returning to their most successful ploy: baiting an ethnic community until it is so fed up that it hits back, thereby triggering further violence.Previously the insurgents focused on the Shia.

Hurd defended it as a necessary shot across the bows of the IRA, but not as a successful ploy for influencing public opinion – although it did temporarily assuage the indignation of the press.

The lawmaker, James E. Laney of the Texas House, was one of dozens of Texas Democrats who scurried out of the state in an unusual and successful ploy to block a vote in the Legislature on a Republican redistricting plan.

I'm bored with Loic's clever (and relatively successful) ploy to get me on-side by asking me to moderate a panel called The European Gang.

Always willing to take risks in order to win, Fender's main objective was to surprise the opposition; legends grew of his successful ploys.

The Socialists' most successful campaign ploy has apparently been their attempt to paint his friends as the primary beneficiaries of Spain's extensive privatization program.

First with "Weeds" and now with "Orange Is the New Black," the television writer and producer Jenji Kohan has proved herself the master of an odd but successful narrative ploy: putting well-behaved middle-class white women in the middle of stories that typically feature rough nonwhite men.

Against all my rational thought I also can't help but see it as an (admittedly successful) financial ploy from ZeniMax ($111million dollars in subscription revenue, even before the game went free to play), but at the expense of getting a next-gen follow up to Skyrim.

The director, Grigory Rodchenkov, who ran the laboratory that handled testing for thousands of Olympians, said he developed a three-drug cocktail of banned substances that he mixed with liquor and provided to dozens of Russian athletes, helping to facilitate one of the most elaborate — and successful — doping ploys in sports history.