Sentences with phrase «like ploys»

With this, it's probably best if Facebook holds off on announcing new products that seem like a ploy to acquire even more user data.

Seems like another ploy to make god seem real.

It also made Facebook's creation seem like a ploy to get back at a girl, rather than the simple desire to create.»

Though this may seems like a ploy for Nissan to boost the Rogue's sales numbers, Rogue Select shoppers can get a lot of kit for the money if they can settle for a slightly older product.

I'll be the first one to admit that credit card bonuses seem like a ploy to get you hooked into taking up credit you may not really need.

Readers beware: this looks like a ploy by the author to benefit from applications / new cards using his referral link (as disclosed in fine print below the title).

From first glance, having this system at all seems like a ploy to draw more cash out of its players, especially since Black Desert has no subscription model (though it does cost $ 30), but that's not the case.

And while this may seem like a ploy to boost sales (and it may very well be) my goal is to use this example to spark interest in making, collecting, and displaying local art.

On Friday, in what feels like a ploy to reassure the public they'll have a plan on the related issue of foreign election interference before the 2018 midterms, Facebook detailed how it will make political advertising more transparent.

With this, it's probably best if Facebook holds off on announcing new products that seem like a ploy to acquire even more user data.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, customers have been wise to this ploy for decades, so rather than asking leading questions, couch your question in neutral and abstract terms, like: «In a perfect world, what would your vendor be doing for you?

On Wednesday, Mr. Schneiderman said Airbnb's Community Compact «is a transparent ploy by Airbnb to act like a good corporate citizen when it is anything but.

Like any introductory period, there are considerations one should put in the ploy.

Some investors actually seek out «pump and dump» ploys in the penny - stock market in search of lottery - like returns, according to research on German stocks by Christian Leuz of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and four other economists.

I and others of like mind criticized the drug culture and related antics as a self - indulgent distraction from the goals of racial justice and peace, and worried that the new enthusiasm for «ecological consciousness» was in fact a conservative ploy designed to turn the movement away from the cause of the poor.

These ploys seem like a crutch to ensure their financial well - being, instead of concentrating on building true - believer who commit to supporting the church, but belong to God foremost.

In this chapter I would like to argue that extraneous causation is a legitimate notion, that it is not a vitalistic ploy but instead an indispensable explanatory idea, though not one capable of scientific verification.

A standard ploy in our efforts to loosen up and stimulate the kids» imaginations is to get them wondering — like Ken — how it would feel to be some creature or thing they're not: steam shovel, garden hose, vacuum cleaner, wild horse, 100 - year - old turtle, old man on a park bench.

Many historic racist like Abraham lincoln came around after a while to the need for integration but when a general freed the slaves in the Civil War Abe promptly fired him only to realise later that freeing the slaves was a good ploy in winning a war in which slavery was not a paramount cause has many people today believe

No sort of church - like or emotional antagonism or psychological ploys or from cultism.

As much as I want to raise my fist like a renegade and shout, «Screw the record companies and their marketing ploys!»

Sales are straight up bullish * t. It's just a ploy for you to feel like you're saving money so you'll actually buy it.

* I like the Mae Ploy brand of curry paste best.

I like Mae Ploy brand and should be widely carried, even in Wal - Mart.

Seems more like a marketing ploy to me (just my two cents).

Not gonna pretend to know this kids game inside and out, and when presidents come out with comments like this you know it's just a ploy to up the price.

Knight's motivational ploys were under scrutiny last week after accusations by former Hoosiers of abuse, including the General's having waved soiled toilet paper at players to show them what they were playing like.

That's not to say that after facing us they will take a liking to one of our players and think on it in summer like with Henry Bronkhorst etc but this thing they do before games is a ploy none the less..

The golfer claimed he was not accusing Johnson of anything like quitting when the going got tough but he did suggest that such ploys had reached «epidemic» proportions.

Coutinho had shone in a central midfield role with Liverpool, where Jurgen Klopp played the likes of Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino, and Mohamed Salah in a front three, and a similar ploy could be deployed at the Camp Nou, though Paulinho could be hard done by the decision, given his impressive showing in the right - midfield position in a 4 -4-2 setup.

You can thump your chest and roar your bs «alpha male wan na be» roar all you like, but in reality land of USA and Earth 2016, pulling yourself up by your own boot straps is something rich people tell poor people to keep them hoping that maybe, just maybe, someday if I try hard enough... It's little more than a ploy to keep the masses from rebelling.

If your child doesn't like school or he hates riding the bus, missing the bus on purpose can be a good ploy.

Car seat expiration dates often seem like nothing more than marketing ploys so you throw your old car seat away.

I also don't have a problem with a company like Sweetgreen offering up these photos as a marketing ploy.

It looks like this is now becoming a clever ploy to manipulate the polity in a particular way; that's what it seems to people.

The US offered cash to persuade climate - vulnerable nations like the Maldives to sign up to its favoured Copenhagen accord, a ploy that Pablo Solón, head of this year's Bolivian delegation, describes as «blackmail».

Switch teams It may seem like a ratings ploy on shows like ABC's Desperate Housewives, but it does happen.

I know, it sounds like a fad / marketing ploy, but The Paleo Diet isn't really a «diet,» and it's actually quite legit.

The popular buzzword descriptors surrounding smoothies, like «detox,» «fat burning,» and «cleansing» are BS marketing ploys.

* 1/4 cup oil, divided * 1 egg, lightly beaten * 1 small yellow onion, diced * 4 cloves garlic, minced * 1 Tablespoon minced ginger * 4 cups day - old, leftover rice (make sure there aren't any large clumps) * 1 Tablespoon sweet chile sauce (like Mae Ploy) * 1 Tablespoon Sriracha * 2 Tablespoons fish sauce * 2 Tablespoons gluten - free oyster sauce * 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper * 1 cup finely diced fresh pineapple (can substitute well drained canned pineapple) * 3/4 cup roughly chopped cilantro * 3/4 cup roughly chopped toasted cashews

I know, it sounds like a fad / marketing ploy, but it's actually quite legit.

They are simply luring you in with their devious marketing ploys to try and get you to believe that there is a «magic pill in a bottle» that will solve all of your body fat and muscle issues and have you looking like the fitness model on the bottle in a couple days.

However, relying on exogenous ketones sounds more like a marketing ploy to me...

While facial acids may sound like some kind of Mean Girl revenge ploy, like when Katy gave Regina George those bars that made her gain weight, rather than a pathway to glowing perfect skin, I promise they're the latter.

I sit somewhere in between thinking it's an overrated marketing ploy and quite liking any excuse for an evening out with nice food.

Why, even though there are numerous ads for a litany of free dating sites, people still feel like there is some sort of ploy or scam in the works.

I hadn't anticipated that this game would be episodic, because the originally advertised title on Steam was «Albino Lullaby,» so that decision feels kind of like a cheap ploy.

It seems like a cheap ploy, and it is, but they make it pay off enough that it's not such a glaring issue.

But it sounds on the face of it like a dangerous ploy.

At worst, they end up like Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend), who's been pared down from a character with romantic feelings for Carrie into a blank workhorse of an assassin, a man who now thinks nothing of kidnapping the nine - year - old son of Carrie's boyfriend, Jonas (Alexander Fehling), in a ploy to lure Carrie into the open.