Sentences with phrase «ploy on»

3700 Casa Verde Street San Jose, CA 95134 http://www.verdant-apts.com/ Is this just a mark - em - up, mark - em - down ploy on the rent prices?

Who knew the «humble brag» is the new marketing ploy on social media?

Its ploy on reality and real fails by using flawed mechanics (melee, shooting, driving, ROMAN), bad voice acting from the lead characters and its lifeless cityscape.

I wonder if this was all a book promotion ploy on the part of Fergie.

The «out of stock «stuff had started with the Kindle 2 though it turned out to be a smart ploy on part of Amazon to introduce their new third generation Kindle.

That appears to be a smart ploy on part of the marketing guys to park the Streak safe from the intensely competitive Android smartphone market (where giants of the likes of Motorola Droid X and HTC Evo can be seen lurking around) while still enabling the Streak to cash in on the lucrative tablet market that is currently dominated by the iPad.

However, usage of the said device in the enterprise segment can't be ruled out either and this could be a tacit ploy on part of Apple to break into a segment that is traditionally dominated by Microsoft.

That's not to call it wildly commercial, however, and it seems like a smart ploy on producer Scott Rudin's part to start here in Cannes and plan a long - term roll - out; this is not a quick, immediate sell and could benefit from some of the lessons learned after the box - office failure last year of Paul Thomas Anderson's equally acclaimed The Master.

Same with Watchdogs, although I suspect that it may be a ploy on UBIsofts part, so they can say «I told you so, our games don't sell on the Wii U» It's a classic self fulfilling prophecy.

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).

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

If it was a marketing ploy on their part, it worked as I felt so insulted by the odds that I decided to «punish» them by collecting # 210 with a tenner bet if my team pull it off.

Wouldn't doubt it if it's a ploy on their part to make Gays and Lesbians look bad during a time when the Supreme Court is taking up the Gay marriage issue!

Investors are trying to «weigh the possibility that this is simply a negotiating ploy on both sides,» said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research.

You won't find any fake profiles or cheesy marketing ploys on this platform.

Gigs in galleries, where visual art has no intrinsic role in the music, come across as little more than cynical, synergistic brand - building ploys on the part of art institutions and their corporate sponsors.

Not exact matches

The news underscores how Amazon is focused on winning India's fledgling e-commerce market, and the offer could be a ploy to block Walmart from bringing its expertise in logistics and supply chain management to Flipkart, people familiar with the matter said.

To become massive I create my own media ploys by watching the news and jumping on hot stories.

Kazakoff and Rose have poked fun at business schools» growing acceptance of the GRE exam (dismissed by them as a ploy by schools to compete for more female applicants) and donned powdered wigs, ruffled shirts and tailored Victorian jackets, bantering in British accents for a recent segment on the invention of capitalism.

Is Equinox's latest ad campaign a poignant commentary about living a value - committed life on unapologetic terms or a desperate ploy to drum up attention using tired shock tactics?

In a ploy to boost holiday sales, Edible Arrangements, a Wallingford, Connecticut, franchiser that sells fruit baskets, announced in October that it would be giving away a coupon that could be redeemed for a $ 15 box of chocolate - dipped fruit to the first 100,000 people who became a fan of the company on Facebook.

A person who was in the room when Cohn brought out the dossiers says the ploy had no influence on the board's decisions, though it was unmistakably a threat to release damaging information.

In one notable instance, Starboard accused Darden of cutting costs in the wrong place by not salting the water for its pasta — a ploy to get longer warranties on cooking pots, the fund said.

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.

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.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has blasted the B.C. plan as an «unconstitutional attack on jobs,» though she's merely hinted at what her own «tools in the toolbox» ploy will be.

Rashad Robinson, executive director of online racial justice organization Color of Change, said in a statement late Tuesday that while he applauded Uber's newfound transparency, «the onus is now on Kalanick and Uber's leadership team to prove that all this public soul - searching isn't just a public relations ploy and to work with advocates and experts to meaningfully increase diversity at the company.»

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.

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?

-- 2:51 PM: Amazon shares spiking higher following report that White House does not have any specific plans for action against AMZN --- MARKET RALLIES ON THIS NEWS by more than 1 % (100 point move for the NAZ100 in minutes)-- If it was any other country we would say that this was a ploy to short stock or markets for profit

This is an outrage to those who have to connive and compete for attention on the basis of deserving (the victim ploy) or threat (the scare ploy directed at heterosexuals).

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.

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.

There we have it folks, this article has now been panned as a right wing attack on Obama for not being a «true» Christian, AND as yet another liberal ploy to praise the president.

The randomness is not some sort of ploy or ruse on God's part.

This ploy highlights the fact that Smith's advice runs counter to conventional thinking about the economy and society it is also a reminder that anyone can have a valuable perspective on economic problems.

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.»

The statement and retraction is just a ploy to show he's not afraid to take on any group, when in fact he will not cross that line too far.

A mostly derivative pastiche of questionable musical integrity, the piece was roasted (backstage, of course» as professionals we will play as well as we can anything that is put on our music stands) by most of my colleagues, and we complained bitterly that the last minute programming of the piece (replacing Brahms» Third Symphony) was no more than a marketing ploy foisted upon us by Sony Classical in order to boost CD sales of the work.

Religion is a cunning ploy to cash in on the most attractive business concept in the world, the prospect of utopic immortality.

As I reflect on the wisdom dispensed in these nugget - size units, I wonder whether such signs fairly represent the teaching that goes on in their churches, or whether they are evangelistic ploys based on the principle that you begin by giving people something helpfully nonthreatening and then, once you've caught their interest, hit them with the gospel.

In public statements Hindu nationalists tried to make their campaign against Muslims seem part of the US - led war on terror, and, as Nussbaum writes, «the current world atmosphere, and especially the indiscriminate use of the terrorism card by the United · States, have made it easier for them to use this ploy.»

In today's world, they haven't yet latched on to the fact that such ploys can only have a very limited effect.

Meanwhile, on December 18 Pinochet was hospitalized after a stroke that his opponents labeled a ploy to escape the charges.

I'm not proposing we review all the different ways to fry and serve a potato — must be a thousand ways to chop it»n' top it — but I am going to propose a little brainstorm on how you might make yours both delicious and a marketing ploy.

It mentions another ploy by Coles, which is this so - called HGP - free beef thing, which privately Coles will admit and have admitted to me is a con - job on consumers.

Is this just a ploy by Madrid to keep Benzema away from the warm - up games while the smokes and mirrors of the transfer window is still in play, or is this an honest injury that he incurred while lying on a beach somewhere?

This could be a clever ploy by Rafa to let Daniel Agger know that if the Dane continues to drag out the contract talks that have been going on for some time then the Spaniard will just opt to sign the impressive Valencia centre back.

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.

Because the once beaten twice shy ploy will be put into force by the Gunners against the Hornets as they put on anti Hornets stinging masks & veils on themselves during the match to render any Hornet stinging ineffective.