Sentences with phrase «oldest ploys»

If so, that is one of the oldest ploys in Albany and certainly at odds with Mr. Cuomo's promise of a new New York.

---- The old, old ploy, Alice.

This program delivers the sport's highest standards (sad this is the best we can do) on all - player football fundamentals and mechanics (with the decades old ploy of setting up «proper way to play» to then be able blame kids for their injuries if they get hurt because they didn't use proper technique) alongside important health and safety components.

«NASA has always been about looking out to the skies and beyond, not burying our heads in the sand,» climate scientist Michael Mann told Universe Today in an email «This is an old ploy, trying to cobble together a small group of individuals and make it sound like they speak with authority on a matter that they have really not studied closely.

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If you are as enlightened as your comment seems to be indicating, why do you not see right through the old Hell ploy scare tactic?

I guess this is the old 30 pieces of silver ploy again only under an different name.

Supporters have praised the government for supporting the elderly, who are some of the most vulnerable in society, while critics have said increasing the state pension is a ploy to secure votes from older people, the majority of whom vote Conservative.

A ploy as old as the hills to political as well as church leaders.

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.

Let me give you just one of many, many quotes from the Koran, (and please don't bother with the old «don't - quote - out - of - context» ploy):

After all is said and done, after all the old racial ploys and tactics are exhausted, we share a common humanum created in the image of God.

Finally, I watched a replay of the Hull City game and noticed most experienced players, if not all, tried to avoid playing a pass to Coquelin even when he was in a great position.To the normal A.O.B mind, they'll say it's a ploy by Wenger to foil Coquelin but I think it would be easier to convince a young player not to pass to him than an older one.

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

The education ploy is getting old.

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A 20 - year - old has been blocked from Tinder after her viral ploy of tempting $ 5 from male matches made her $ 100 in a week.

Her ploys to entice the unaware John at work fall flat, so she turns to the 13 - year - old granddaughter of her outspoken pal Roz (an invaluable Tyne Daly), who helps her create a fake Facebook page so she can virtually stalk him.

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.

Mitchell handles Detroit's dilapidation poetically and atmospherically, notably at the start, when Jay is tied up in an old car park to have It explained to her (the stills misleadingly suggest torture porn, possibly a devious publicity ploy on someone's part).

And now, a new test promising to revolutionize education will produce yet more meaningless data for adults starving to exploit children for self - gain, selfish career aspirations, blind ideological ploys, or for the purposes of establishing high property values on the backs of children, all the while sorting out which 8 year olds are on track to be «college and career ready».

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.

It's the old hurry up and wait ploy.

Bishop credits Billy for effective marketing ploys aimed at 16 - to 24 - year - old males: endorsements from X Games athletes; sponsorship deals with the likes of Cannondale mountain bikes; a retrofitted reptile - motif school bus that raided Mountain Dew and Coca - Cola promotional events to blast the insurgent's urination - themed slogan, «Drain the Lizard.»

This is the old evolution ploy — if the scientists can't explain everything they must not be able to explain anything.

Oh, the old irrefutable accusation ploy again.

Yes, crypticism is an old pseudo-scientific ploy.

These scientists are knuckleheads for thinking wer» e going to fall for the old computer model study ploy.

So, a journalist tries various tricks to make the piece interesting — highlighting conflict (the old science as sporting event ploy), manufacturing a narative (the old pretence of human interest in th sciences), or they oversell the importance or novelty of the research (aka the «read my piece or die» ploy).

The second lawsuit was filed by Los Angeles resident Stefan Bogdanovich, who similarly argues that the purposeful slowing down of older iPhone models is a ploy to prompt customers to upgrade to the latest handsets.

It's an old advertising ploy used by promoters for everything from cigarettes to soap; postulating, «If so many other people are doing it how can they all be wrong?»

You know the kind, the folks who are always «offended» with leading offers, the over-stators of the wonders of their listings, the folks who play the «first one to speak loses» thousand - year - old psycho - babble ploy etc..