Sentences with phrase «ploys for»

Rather, the best type of candidate might be the one who will be able to avoid corruption, graft, and ploys for personal power, while being able to simultaneously write solid, long - term legislation that rewards new energy ideas that can result in the reduction of CO2 emissions, while also writing legislation that provides for adequate nuclear energy and fossil energy to be developed and used for the near term without punishment.

All of the characters in Chicago have a shameless feel to them, and it's a lot of fun watching them go about all their ploys for fame.

Some of the cameos were fantastic, and a great way to bring in all our favourites of Anderson's usual players, although a lot of the cameos felt like nothing more than small ploys for audience once the film was over.

As Jordan devises various ploys for Casey to get people's attention, the police, including her former or current boyfriend Paul (Morris Chestnut) and a police helicopter, are trying to find the car.

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

David DeAngelo also points out that ploys for attention are seen as VERY needy and insecure.

The names of the judges are kept strictly confidential, to avoid any late - night cupcake deliveries or other devious ploys for additional judging points.

The effort was largely criticized as a ploy for attention.

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?

Another Obama ploy for votes!

The Christian false religion is simply a lie and power ploy for those who can't get a regular job and their weak minded flock.

CNN, what a pathetic ploy for eyeballs.

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.»

He also finally got medical attention for a back condition his mother always dismissed as being a ploy for attention.

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.

And don't believe every transfer rumour because it's a ploy for Arsenal fans to renew their season tickets.

This could just be a ploy for the bookies to try and take money from unsuspecting punters, but with Arsene Wenger desperate to make up for last years failures it certainly makes sense that he should go all out for a top goalscorer.

We all know it is just another cynical ploy for the TV networks to get another live game on the screens, but Theo Walcott thinks that the novelty could work in Arsenal favour as we look to go top of the table before everyone else plays over the weekend.

The Key ploy for this game for the Gunners to operate with it is, RESTLESSNESS.

Biting may also be a ploy for attention.

Paterson insisted the fact that he has not yet sent any vetoes to the Legislature is not «some sort of a ploy for negotiations,» saying he would not «sit here and kill myself» trying to sign all 6,900 just to make a statement.

This is not a new scam, as thieves have used this ploy for years to prey on residents.

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

But he feels that that's a negotiating ploy for him because he wants to ensure an on - time budget.»

«People can say it's a backdoor ploy for citizenship,» Pataki said.

Three risky reactors could close, but is it a ploy for more public money into a privately - held corporation?

Conventional acne topicals are a marketing ploy for acne sufferers and sometimes do help — but, for a certain amount of time — then you're back searching for another «effective» product.

The blue tights were a great ploy for my demure tea dress, and I'm delighted at the response they got.

But even cursory knowledge of their split makes this public and emotionally messy and revealing ploy for reconciliation teeter on, and sometimes fall over, the borderline into creepy territory.

Sadly, even though it's clearly yet another ploy for more money, August is filled -LSB-...]

Sadly, even though it's clearly yet another ploy for more money, August is filled with some sincere efforts such as Ryan Murphy's much - anticipated adaptation of Eat Pray Love, even if it will be overshadowed by the indie / geek-fest that is Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World.

But the director's recent films like «Beauties At War» and «The Suicide Shop» have struggled to find audiences at home or abroad, and so Leconte seems to have made another ploy for a bigger crowd: at the age of 66, he's made his English - language debut.

So, what was for some people a demonstration of what really good kissing looks like was just a ploy for a good camera angle?

It is, quite simply, a decision made by a character in keeping with what one would expect her to do, and not a cheap ploy for drama.

Based upon Harold Gray's popular comic strip «Little Orphan Annie,» the Depression - era story revolved around an optimistic moppet, her dog Sandy and her benefactor, billionaire Oliver «Daddy» Warbucks.Updated to the present with a multicultural cast, the sassy, spunky tyke (Quvenzhane Wallis) is temporarily adopted by a cynical cellphone mogul, Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx), as a ploy for voter appeal when he runs for Mayor of New York City.

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.

But eliminating colors after a 2 - 3 year run is a good Marketing ploy for both the consumer & Chevrolet.

But it took Peeta's ploy for me to recognize it.

It was a promotional offer of that nature that finally pushed me over the edge when I considered buying a DVD player, so I'm confident that a Kindle promotion that's tied into a book - buying obligation would be a solid promotional ploy for Amazon to consider.

I can't decide if he's better at his ploy for sympathetic treatment with his big droopy puppy eyes above, or his proud look of accomplishment and his seeking of approval in the last photo.

But is World of Demons just a cheap ploy for the mobile market using a piece of the Okami pie?

On the way, they find out that a peace treaty struck between Lucis and Niflheim was a ploy for Niflheim to invade and steal Lucis's crystal, and it is up to Noctis and his friends to fight back.

But this really smacks of the special pleader's manipulative ploy for more publicity for a cause.

And every year new hockey - stick projection is made, Doomesday is pushed back one year, a convenient ploy for the neo-Communists to NEVER HAVE TO PROVE ANYTHING!

«In retrospect, FutureGen appears to have been nothing more than a public relations ploy for Bush Administration officials to make it appear to the public and the world that the United States was doing something to address global warming,» an exhaustive House Science Committee report recently stated.

«In retrospect,» the report concluded, «FutureGen appears to have been nothing more than a public relations ploy for Bush administration officials to make it appear to the public and the world that the United States was doing something to address global warming despite its refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.»

For instance, Sierra Club Beyond Dirty Fuels campaign director Kelly Martin called the initiative «a cynical ploy for public goodwill» that «falls far short of what is necessary to protect our communities and our climate from the dangers of methane pollution.»

These include whether forks of bitcoin might actually be weaker in providing consumers with decentralization, whether buyers want access to those properties or if «decentralization» is simply a buzzword and marketing ploy for all cryptocurrencies.

However, Reuters reported the opposition party is still denouncing the cryptocurrency initiative as an «illegal» ploy for the ruling party to get advance payments on prospective oil sales.

And because the bullying behavior is a tentative ploy for dominance from a hurting child, he / she is likely to back off.