Was it a deliberate ploy to float the company on the stock market before there were any hard data that could be used to value the shares? (tsi-blog.com)
More recently, Coronation Street's Rev Billy Mayhew (Daniel Griffith) is a gay character who struggles with the apparent conflict between his sexual identity and the Church he loves, which could be viewed either as a reflection of real life, or a deliberate ploy to drum up viewing figures by exploiting a delicate and complicated theological subject. (premierchristianity.com)
It's a deliberate ploy on his part to wait and wait and wait to see what develops on the last couple of days. (justarsenal.com)