Sentences with phrase «cynical ploy»

Anyway, The Death Star DLC move is (IMO) one of the most cynical ploys by a games company in a while; a depressing reminder that games company's have very little respect for the audience they cater for these days.

This cynical ploy follows a series of recent outrages: free drugs for seniors, a staged increase in the minimum wage to $ 15 an...

Perhaps, as some argue, Trump channels the anxieties of a class whose economic and social standing is in demonstrable decline as a cynical ploy to win popularity — this is a man who once called the poor «morons» — while winking at the «establishment,» who can take comfort in knowing that this reality - television caricature of themselves actually shares their political opportunism, if not their economic values.

alternatively, just a cynical ploy to keep getting his 8M while we wait for him to run out his contract.

We all know it is just another cynical ploy for the TV networks to get another live game on the screens, but Theo Walcott thinks that the novelty could work in Arsenal favour as we look to go top of the table before everyone else plays over the weekend.

Kline called the move «nothing more than a cynical ploy to prevent members of Congress from legislating.»

I'm sure that's not at all a cynical ploy to attract younger voters.

It smacks of a grubby, cynical ploy that prioritises bussing middle class students to the polls over people with genuinely unpayable debts.

Many politicos, including Mr. Cuomo's 2014 Democratic primary rival Zephyr Teachout, have alleged that the creation of the Women's Equality Party was a cynical ploy to draw liberal votes away from the similarly - initialed Working Families Party.

Rather than a legitimate plan, it seems clear that this is a cynical ploy to open the whole state to drilling while attempting to limit unprecedented and growing public opposition to fracking.

Cuomo's liberal and conservative rivals immediately denounced it as a cynical ploy and questioned the incumbent's record on women's issues.

Just before Cuomo dropped out, two major remaining unions in the party announced that they were withdrawing from the working Families Party, and other union leaders released stinging rebukes, calling the WFP «phony lifestyle progressives» and saying the party was a «cynical ploy» to use the unions to «drive a radical agenda.»

«In hindsight, it's easy to see the whole thing was just a scam, a cynical ploy to drive a radical agenda using the muscle and money of organized labor while widely ignoring the actual concerns of New York's working people.

Many politicos, including Mr. Cuomo's 2014 Democratic primary rival Zephyr Teachout, have alleged that the creation of the Women's Equality Party was a cynical ploy to draw liberal votes away from the similarly initialed Working Families Party.

This new evidence proves definitively that the teachers» union's cynical ploy to undermine teacher evaluations is directly harmful to children who need help the most,» said StudentsFirstNY executive director Jenny Sedlis.

The recall of Parliament on the day of the UKIP conference is a «cynical ploy», says the party's deputy chairman.

Some viewed it as a cynical ploy to siphon votes from the Working Families Party, or to boost the ticket's favorability with women amidst a primary run against Zephyr Teachout.

«It's really a cynical ploy.»

Observers say the move is a cynical ploy to distance himself from assistant commissioner John Yates, whose two - hour review into the original inquiry in 2009 concluded that there was no need to re-open the investigation.

Thirdly, it's a cynical ploy to win popular support — we don't believe that George has good motives for engaging with British youth culture and making politics more relevant.

Twenty - six of the 51 members of the Council charged in the letter that the world's biggest retailer's support of local causes is a cynical ploy to enter the market here.

The Working Families Party, the labor - backed political party that has feuded with Mr. Cuomo, cried foul, claiming the WEP was a cynical ploy to siphon votes from the WFP.

That expansion comes two months before the Democratic primary, something Tillard called «a cynical ploy.»

It wasn't just a cynical ploy, but an embrace of voters with different motivations for voting, shorn of the critical language with which so many still describe Conservatives.

«It's a cynical ploy that will not resonate with the residents of Bedford - Stuyvesant.»

While 36 % say the tax move was sensible and necessary, 47 % say it was a cynical ploy ahead of the by - election.»

But some scholars and activists find the name a cynical ploy, since it houses the country's most diehard conservation biologists.

But when Sue walks up to the counter of the general store, their cynical ploy falters in the face of the shopkeep (Titus Welliver), who speaks to Sue as if he were the film's writer, breaking down her carefully composed behavior with homespun wisdom and analysis.

Is A24's decision a cynical ploy to game the system?

Everyone knows they are a cynical ploy to suppress the participation of poor and minority citizens — likely Democratic voters.

A new compact SUV from Porsche, a company that maintains laser - like focus on developing its performance cars, might seem like a cynical ploy to enhance revenue in a hot segment.

I was inclined to write off the Jetta Hybrid as a cynical ploy to undo all of Volkswagen's goodwill towards its TDI program; a car that merely pays lip service to the hybrid trend, a true compliance car if there ever was one.

It's a cynical ploy, but it works with gullible animal lovers, as we have just seen.»

Worse, it's a cynical ploy by a major publisher to (literally) trade on players» desire for a new entry in a beloved franchise.

It may be a cynical ploy to sucker new members into paying for Gold membership, but we still like it.

And being long DEAD doesn't save you from this cynical ploy, as Rachel Carson could tell you, if she was not in fact dead lo these many years.

The sale of SPR fuel, which he supports now because of the pain at the pump and which he opposed a month ago when prices were higher, is clearly another cynical ploy.

It is, as everyone knows, a cynical ploy put forward simply to allow the government to say that it has a policy.

But that's a cynical ploy.

It is being promoted by envi onmentalists as a cynical ploy to raise...

For instance, Sierra Club Beyond Dirty Fuels campaign director Kelly Martin called the initiative «a cynical ploy for public goodwill» that «falls far short of what is necessary to protect our communities and our climate from the dangers of methane pollution.»

It was a cynical ploy.

I'm not saying this was all just a cynical ploy to glom onto the tragedy at Stoneman Douglas and use it for his political ends, but hey, in politics, when you can do some good while doing well, it's a win - win.

I have long held that FINTRAC is a cynical ploy by Revenue Canada to use 9/11 as a pretext to ferret out tax evasion schemes, and I still do, Therefore, I put my hand up to ask the question «How many terrorists and money - launderers have we Realtors caught, after a year of implementation?»