The night after the Colorado killings I saw several politicians and gun activists on TV dodging important questions through the time-tested ploy of saying, in one form or another, "For the moment, I think we should just pray for the families of the people killed by this evil man".
I decided to test out my ploy with the teenager, who looked like she was familiar with frivolous trends.
It is clear that targeting Christian children on Easter is a ploy to test the ruling party's resolve.
Lionel Trilling told his wife, Diana, that the stabbing was, in her words, "a Dostoevskyan ploy": Mailer was testing the limits of evil in himself.
For that reason, arms control advocates have called the Alaska test site a ploy to abrogate the treaty.
Best Buy will at least not be alone in fighting back -- its ploy follows by a day the news that Wal-Mart is testing out its own same-day delivery service to undercut Amazon, the WSJ notes.
The service will begin this month on the Virginia Tech campus and aims to test many of the bugs associated with drone delivery and isn't just another marketing ploy from Chipotle.
He eschewed the lob, mainly because he wanted his opponent to reach to either wing in those exchanges, testing both his stamina, his suspect footwork and his commitment to what became his only attacking ploy, however doomed.
Max Brantley, then the editor of the Gazette, told me, "The teacher test was a cynical ploy.
"That has not happened before," he said, betraying anxiety wondering if was real, a test or a CIA ploy to get him out onto the street.
