Sentences with phrase «desperate ploy»
The phrase "desperate ploy" means a last-ditch, risky action or tactic taken out of a sense of urgency or extreme need. Full definition
Sitting in Jakarta on Thursday September 28th, two days after I evacuated from Bali, I read this article which shows the Bali Government Tourism Office in an almost desperate ploy to reassure the world that tourism to Bali is safe.
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One wonders if Facebook's embarrassing social - engineering experiment last spring, in which users» feeds were edited in an attempt to lift their moods, wasn't a desperate ploy to keep people coming back.
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The B.C. Liberals» sudden decision to back down on an income tax cut announced in a desperate ploy to buy back support from an angry public proves that the province's economic policy is in shambles.
In response to the article he tweeted, «Doubt as a STD seems like a desperate ploy.»
They just don't want to debase it by using it as a cheaper alternative to seeing a movie, or (for boys) as a way of asserting machismo in the absence of positive male role models, or (for girls) as a desperate ploy to hold on to a boyfriend — or any of the other sad, dead — end abuses of sex that become common whenever a society sheds its «repressed Victorianism.»
Then we go into Chippendales mode and everything comes off in a desperate ploy to score score score, but you rarely know if it'll work and sometimes you get your worst ever embarrassments cos of it.
But I think the lobby is hoping this desperate ploy will push through labeling changes on all flavored milk, in school and out, plus those 17 other products.
Martins has publicly criticized Curran on this issue, leading the Democrat to accuse her opponent of making a «a desperate ploy for attention.»
This must be a sneaky and desperate ploy to trick Google Admins into enabling Google + access so users can create Google + profiles.
«It's a desperate ploy — a bit shameful, actually,» Jennifer Stisa Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, told the E-Commerce Times.