Sentence examples for to be a ploy from inspiring English sources

In any case, the divorce of AIDS from homosexuality in these early narratives was universally understood to be a ploy.

Fielding sons Ryan and Cameron, instead of more senior players, was always going to be a ploy fraught with danger for Edwards.

Alex Cunningham, the Labour MP for Stockton North and a vocal campaigner for plain packaging, said the move appeared to be a ploy to prolong the visibility of Marlboro's brand in the UK.

Youssef Sidhom, the editor of the Coptic newspaper al-Watani, said the rumors of women being held for converting to Islam appear to be a ploy by a small group of Salafists.

The talks next month will reveal whether Sudan considers that it has shown enough already.The pact between Congo and Rwanda, which was struck in Pretoria this week after hasty talks, seems even more obviously to be a ploy in a well-established game of bluff.

Stop Aids genocide by the drug cartel!" The cartel, he says, includes not only George Bush, but Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, whose plan for Africa is said to be a ploy to increase the revenues of the British drug company GlaxoSmithKline.

Setting this limit proved to be a successful ploy.

Many EU countries considered this to be a Russian ploy to weaken NATO, and American officials are watching nervously.

Hadithi offers the CNN crew a trip to occupied Kuwait, but it turns out to be a propaganda ploy.

Farming out content has turned out to be a good ploy.

Murdoch's withdrawal did not appear to be a negotiating ploy.