Sentences with word «ploy»

Of course this is all just a clever marketing ploy by EA to ensure that you try out both demos and hopefully end up buying both games, but considering all the effort it takes to bag these shiny items is to download two demos that I would have downloaded anyway, you can count me in.

People weren't sure if the similarities were mere coincidence, or the best marketing ploy by Kojima to date.

Was it the pure marketing ploy of putting two actors from legendary boxing movies back in the ring?

The returning favorites don't appear as ploys for the audience's affection.

It's easy for me to imagine this as a scene from a Charlie Chaplin film: woman behind plank, plank as ploy.

It is an excellent political ploy for controlling people as it first says, «being human you are born sinful and are doomed to suffer forever in Hell, but follow this formula and all is forgiven and you will have pleasures beyond imaging forever in Heaven.»

Omni - channel is not merely a marketing ploy in which we tie people's digital and physical experiences together.

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.

«All natural» is a marketing ploy used on the front of many pretty food packages, designed to deceive consumers into thinking they're making a healthy choice.

But hey, the marketing ploy worked as it caught my attention and got me curious enough to want to try it.

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

This one day «deal» on Woot seemed good at the time, but now I have come to realize it was just a clever ploy for Amazon to dump 500 units of their now outdated model.

Cold War dread and the trauma of the war just ended found expression everywhere, Schimmel believes, in desperate exertions and game - like ploys to make art that would keep people — including the artists themselves — from going numb with depression and fear.

Of course this is a common ploy of governments and I don't believe it for a moment but that's what it says in a book many people take as being totally true in every word.

It was nothing more than a political ploy designed with one purpose in mind: To ensure that real redistricting reform would never actually happen in Maryland.»

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

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

I don't think its as cheap ploy as the rest of the films, only because Hans Zimmer has a credit in all three Transformers films.

The long - term prospects of such ploys are not positive, particularly with Japan's endemic demography problem becoming more obvious with each passing year.

These marketing ploys don't work on people like me who pay off their credit card balance as early as possible.

For week night simplicity, I've used a quality prepared green curry paste made by Mae Ploy which I strongly recommend (unless you want to keep this recipe vegan, see notes).

There is only one size and no such thing as an imperial Shih Tzu or tea cup Shih Tzu; those are simply ploys to sell Shih Tzu dogs.

I honestly can't say I know many people who've played it — even Secret of Mana fans - despite the obvious ploy with the name.

And you will miss the boat — another so underhanded ploy at fear.

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

«Clearly it's a negotiating ploy for teams that have that kind of revenue,» says Hurricanes G.M. Jim Rutherford, who kept his payroll $ 4 million under the cap last year.

Martins has publicly criticized Curran on this issue, leading the Democrat to accuse her opponent of making a «a desperate ploy for attention.»

An additional ploy seems to be the implicit assumption that temperature only depends on CO2 concentrations, even on annual timescales.

My favorite part is how this is such an obvious ploy for attention, but she pretends that she and her baby just happened to be there with matching flower child hairdos, photographer at the ready, when she was overcome with the need to show all those uneducated women that breastfeeding is an option.

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.

To say the infomercial - style PR ploy backfired would be an understatement.

Obviously, this was a failed political ploy meant to embarrass the president.

Before purchasing a hermit crab for your children, learn more about hermit crab care and pet store marketing ploys so that you can find a pet that will be good for your child.

We can live with such transparent ploys as the one here that Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) will remember almost everything in his life except for the events that would solve all his problems.

«I think there's something about Tony that makes people want to support him,» reflected Andrew Freiser, who split his stall with fellow New York dealer Garth Greenan — a common ploy here, and perhaps an indication of the caution out - of - towners brought with them.

Over the years arsenal making top four was just a money making ploy with no real intent on winning the trophy and thereby messing up our epl title challenge.

While he could deploy Andre Schurrle or Maximilian Philipp upfront, he could also go with the exuberance of young Alexandre Isak or the tactical ploy of Mario Gotze in a False Nine role.

This is a very effective ploy as all businesses want to employ personnel who share their aspiration.

And that almost perfectly captures the current public relations ploy of choice among NCB advocates.

Also, more time could have been given to describing how to resist the psychological ploys employed by retailers.

His latest ploy saw him... Jarrett met her in an Albury motel on October 14 and later in Wodonga.

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).

Their quoted success rate is quite impressive as it even includes attractive testimonials but the truth is, that figure is nothing more than a sales ploy meant to lure traders in.