Sentences with phrase «deliberate ploy»

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?

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.

It's a deliberate ploy on his part to wait and wait and wait to see what develops on the last couple of days.

Problem always was, after Jose very intentionally baited him by mentioning how much Wenger spends - a deliberate ploy made to force the imbecile Wenger into proving a point by spending nothing - he was always going to try and prove a point.

Arsenal had a deliberate ploy to chip the ball over the Stoke defence and it created a few openings.

If this was a deliberate ploy, how come Liverpool aren't doing the same thing and creating chances from corners in this zone this season too?

This was as the governor described the ugly incident as not just sad but a deliberate ploy to destabilise his administration.

Meanwhile, apart from politicians playing their games, there has been a deliberate ploy by certain individuals to bring security agencies into the fray.

In a statement from his media Adviser, Ike Abonyi, Secondus feared that the continued listing of his name might be a deliberate ploy by the anti-graft agency to implicate him in a desperate attempt by the ruling APC to suppress him and equally dent the credibility of the PDP.

«As a founding member and major stakeholder in our ruling party, the APC, we are forced to question Mansur's real motive and demand that he publicly explains to the party leadership why we should not conside his reckless utterances as a deliberate ploy to truncate the party's victory in the 2019 general elections.

I hear the show, which will air later this spring, is focused on hard - drinking Monroe's rumored inability to land the «it's me, sugar» line in the film, although others suggest it was actually a line about bourbon or even a deliberate ploy by Monroe to get Wilder to rewrite the movie.

This isn't a deliberate ploy to make girls more risk - averse than boys, but that doesn't mean it's not happening.

It could be a deliberate ploy to draw students into a specific emotional response.

Children are to taught they have failed from year one onwards as a deliberate ploy to create failure and low expectation.

Although VW won't tell you this, concealing that 25bhp in a quick spurt overboost mode is a deliberate ploy to ensure that the Clubsport doesn't quite tread on the toes of the 296bhp, but heavier, Golf R.

This is, I believe, was a deliberate ploy to encourage us all to make use of one of the coolest features of this app; that fact multiple AR designs can be used simultaneously.

One wonders though in this case is it a deliberate ploy, and later this year we will seem a fresh batch of units.

This deliberate ploy has meant there has...

Strathy said the phone call was «a deliberate ploy» to influence the witness's evidence in the middle of cross-examinations through communication that wasn't part of the record.

Some commentators have argued the name's similarity with CDEP was a deliberate ploy to try and get community buy - in for the new program.