Sentence examples for such a ploy from inspiring English sources

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Could such a ploy prevail?

Such a ploy cannot be ruled out.

After all, it would be hard to conceal such a ploy from the many American and other foreign military advisers based there.

A ploy in which an attractive person, usually a woman, lures another, usually a man, into revealing information; by extension, a person employing such a ploy.

In Tortorella's defense, such a ploy is used rarely: it has been done in Europe, once in an N.C.A.A. championship game, and perhaps a couple of other times, but probably never in the N.H.L.

Such a ploy by the Iraqi leader, as Mr. Baker described it, might also soften the glue keeping the anti-Iraq alliance together, perhaps even causing the Saudis to have second thoughts about fighting other Arabs.

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Yet the real threat of such a ploy--if in fact it turns out to be one--is not to an officer who essentially claimed that blacks and Latinos drove him crazy, nor to the criminal justice system that frequently blinks at the racism that infects its processes.

What is particularly vile is that it is such a cynical ploy.

When Blache was asked about the wisdom of using such a motivational ploy, especially in light of the Carruth indictment, he shrugged off the question as news media hype.

He is especially curious about how and when the department realised it had misled Congress and what discussions led up to its decision to come clean.But it is Mr Obama's shift on immigration that Republicans see as the biggest affront, in part because it seems like such a naked ploy to ingratiate Mr Obama to Hispanic voters.

Do you think the person you're emailing is that desperate for personal validation that they would fall for such a pathetic ploy?

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