Sentence examples for with a ploy from inspiring English sources

Holly Hunter, the union rep, loves her teachers and so she fights the takeover with a ploy you might expect from a corporate villain.

Evans and Bart thus had to come up with a ploy to sell Paramount's president, Stanley Jaffe, a Sicilian Mob film without a name filmmaker attached.

The coincidence of the closure of the last 22 BHS stores with the revelation that Sir Philip Green has come up with a ploy to stymie an investigation by the pensions regulator was greeted with another round of negative newspaper headlines and editorials.

When he realized there were a lot of attractive women in his building, Mr. Gutfeld came up with a ploy for meeting them; a monthly photo spread called "The Women of 39th and Sixth," which features a woman of his choosing.

At each, he sat down heavily, as though overcome with fatigue: a ploy to make us sit down too, so the owner could deliver his schtick.

Sex had surfaced again, and as a sign of how little things had changed, designers were trying to grab headlines with hemlines, a ploy that hasn't worked since the 1980's.

Enlisting his wife's chiropractor, Wood had Lugosi's stand-in wear the actor's trademark Dracula cape and cover his face menacingly with it – a ploy that few might ever have noticed, had Lugosi not been a good foot shorter than his replacement.

Democratic Senators can't be allowed to get away with such a ploy.

For that reason, players, the person said, view the league's offer to negotiate again with Cohen as a ploy.

What ultimately resulted from post-Vietnam deliberations was the new policy of "embedding" journalists with specific units, a ploy that actually restricts the press while silencing any complaints about being denied access.

To bank on one's affection for the young and adorable, to play on one's sympathy for the old and sick, is a devious means of collecting money, a ploy with all the stench of a big-city hustle.