Sentences with phrase «as ploy»

Too often, a father will use custody as a ploy to avoid financial responsibilities to his children and the family, or retreats because he believes he is insufficient, or deficient, to parent on his own.

Singer and Reynolds also quote a California study in which one - third of the divorced women reported that their husbands had threatened to ask for custody as a ploy in negotiations.

If they intend to use this as a ploy to bring in potential Pixel buyers than I'm not sure this will impact the wireless network providers... However, if they bring the service mainstream to other hardware providers (including Apple) they have a shot to really shake things up.

One can't help but think that even amid Google statements saying that the Motorola acquisition would help lead to more prosperity within the Android ecosystem, it ultimately wound up as a ploy to grab much - desired patents.

What started out as a ploy to get fast money eventually turned...

He also accuses Apple of using the power cap as a ploy to force consumers to buy newer devices.

Suzuki received a PhD in zoology in the 1960s and uses it as a ploy to pretend he's an expert on everything from climate science to agriculture to immigration to fossil fuels.

Some will regard the council's trade as a ploy to undo the EPA's authority to protect not just climate — where it may be largely ineffectual anyway — but public health.

Experts, meanwhile have largely dismissed the move by the two ministers as a ploy to score points for conservatives running in the upcoming Sept. 22 federal elections.

It's easy for me to imagine this as a scene from a Charlie Chaplin film: woman behind plank, plank as ploy.

I own some skylanders, and i kinda like the game, but i see it as a ploy, a friend of mine hates character DLC but buys all the amiboo's infinity and skylanders.......

After his victory, the vision was revealed as a ploy of the tower's guardian, Re-Faze.

Developers will benefit from quantifiable metadata and server load testing, but it's just as easy to view the focus on early access for highly anticipated games as a ploy to maintain interest in them.

But some observers are also quick to criticize the politics of the appointment, which is widely viewed as a ploy to attract Hispanic voters for Vice President George Bush, the Republican nominee for the Presidency.

Based upon Harold Gray's popular comic strip «Little Orphan Annie,» the Depression - era story revolved around an optimistic moppet, her dog Sandy and her benefactor, billionaire Oliver «Daddy» Warbucks.Updated to the present with a multicultural cast, the sassy, spunky tyke (Quvenzhane Wallis) is temporarily adopted by a cynical cellphone mogul, Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx), as a ploy for voter appeal when he runs for Mayor of New York City.

He agrees to one final exorcism as a ploy to teach the film crew and subsequent viewers what a sham the whole process is.

There's a deceptiveness lurking deep within Amour, an insincerity that colors the drama, recasting it as a ploy.

(She plays a Brit who marries Stahl as a ploy to get her green card.)

Yet while many animal rights groups applauded the measure, other organizations and some elected officials condemned it as a ploy to relieve the city of having to provide additional services and of possibly losing a lawsuit challenging its treatment of animals.

Ostensibly intended to promote the anti-discrimination, pro-choice Women's Equality Agenda, many, including executives at the WFP, viewed the new ballot line as a ploy to siphon vital votes from the WFP.

When the McCain campaign abruptly pulled out of Michigan two weeks ago, some Obama aides and top Democrats in the state's congressional delegation dismissed it as a ploy and argued that the GOP would be back in the state full time, big time.

While describing those behind the argument as thoughtless, Ojudu described it as a ploy by the opposition to cause an unnecessary division.

He said those perpetuating such attacks were not confident of their chances at the polls and, therefore, had resorted to constant attacks on the EC as a ploy to prepare the grounds and create an impression for disputed election results.

Grimm's Republican primary opponent, the current congressman Dan Donovan, sees the Scaramucci event as a ploy, another attempt to sway voters in an area seen as Trump country.

District Attorney Holley Carnright is dismissing accusations of financial mismanagement by political rival Jonathan Sennett as a ploy concocted by

It's seen by incoming Supervisor - elect Laura Gillen as a ploy to hinder her and her administration from making certain decisions not agreeable with Santino while she's in office.

Ulster County district attorney Holley Carnright is dismissing accusations of financial mismanagement by political rival Jonathan Sennett as a ploy

The anti-graft agency described Diezani's prayer to be brought back to Nigeria as a ploy to escape justice in the UK, where, according to the EFCC, she is being investigated for several financial crimes by the Metropolitan Police.

Kamson however expressed concerns that in recent times, some non-complaint private operators on the waterways had misconstrued the moves by the State Government as a ploy to harass and intimidate them out of business and had been peddling unwarranted falsehood, claims, counter claims and litigation in the media.

This partnership was widely interpreted as a ploy to stave off the kind of soda tax and cap initiatives proposed by the Bloomberg administration in New York City.

Indeed the sudden emergence of Liverpool as a possible buyer for Mustafi could be regarded as a ploy to strengthen the Spanish club's bargaining position with Arsenal.

The Russian has offered before to inject large sums to bump up the war chest, but was turned down by Kroenke and the Board as a ploy to gain more shares, so it is doubtful the American will agree this time around either.

On the other hand, teams now use it as a ploy to get more money for their players.

As this a ploy to make the Gunners feel at home at Turf Moor.

I view Sir Keswick statement on the debate of Le Prof leaving Arsenal at the end of this season as a conditional statement to appease the Wenger Out Arsenal fans to be calm as the Arsenal board who for his prudent financial management skill in managing the club finances doesn't want him to go now to try to buy time for him to use Arsenal success of a win of the FA Cup and a 4th place table finish this season as a ploy to convince the Wenger Out Arsenal fans he can still be kept at the club as manager for another 2 — 3 years to achieve the titles they've been craving after in the next 2 — 3 season..

Now I completely believe that Lucas was purchased as a ploy to shut us up.

Mistaking Christ's «dying to self» as a ploy to keep them oppressed, they have elevated themselves to the place of the divine and thus denied themselves any knowledge of the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Many saw the ad as a ploy to help the government meet that requirement — but only by offering religious minorities the most menial jobs.

Blessed are the Cheesemakers Once you recognize it as a ploy it should make it easier not to fall for the bait.

The resignation followed an intervention by the country's military after Mugabe sacked his vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, earlier that month, and attempted to replace him with his wife, Grace Mugabe, which many saw as a ploy to eventually prepare her for the presidency.

What started as a ploy to increase his client count quickly turned into a mission to deliver value.

The effort was largely criticized as a ploy for attention.

Kazakoff and Rose have poked fun at business schools» growing acceptance of the GRE exam (dismissed by them as a ploy by schools to compete for more female applicants) and donned powdered wigs, ruffled shirts and tailored Victorian jackets, bantering in British accents for a recent segment on the invention of capitalism.

It doesn't come across as a ploy, and many people took to Facebook in the comments and complained.

Which he has designed to catch the Gunners into it as he ploys to make the Gunners become over-confident and be complacent.

Just as these ploys are instant relationship killers in real life, the same is true in the online world.

The returning favorites don't appear as ploys for the audience's affection.

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While Miscavige and his organization have held up the media complex as a valuable tool for spreading the message of Scientology and recruiting new members to join, the new facilities have received criticism from opponents of the religion — including some former members — who claim the complex is nothing more than a propaganda machine and a ploy to attract donations.

In a recent blog post, Noyes, a quantitative trader, called the Telegram ICO an «opportunistic ploy» and described the project's 132 - page technical whitepaper as «essentially a wishlist of things they want to have, and how it will work assuming that their wishlist doesn't crash and burn.»

As TIME's Zeke Miller noted, Trump's team didn't back up the $ 4 billion figure and that the tweet may be «a time - honored ploy to demonstrate a desire to cut costs in the bloated Defense Department.»