Sentence examples for the ploys from inspiring English sources

The ploys people use to get there are often deceptive.

The ploys have been as amusing as their pretexts are flimsy.

The NSA's boss, Keith Alexander, says the ploys revealed by Mr Snowden have stopped dozens of plots.

Like its main source, the Annals of Tacitus, the play has a connoisseur's interest in the ploys with which the corrupt hold on to power.

Among the ploys: Enron was in favor of the Kyoto treaty, because it thought it could make money trading emission permits; see, environmentalism is the villain.

Andrew Lapthorne, analyst at Société Générale, notes that one of the ploys being used by central banks – negative interest rates– is subject to the law of unintended consequences.

The ploy worked.

But the ploy worked.

NGOs condemn the ploy.

The ploy was simple.

If so, the ploy succeeded.