Is Grassley's ploy a ham-fisted attempt to shake down rich Wall Streeters for campaign contributions?
Speaking through an interpreter, President Bashir argued that a U.N. force is a ploy to re-colonize Sudan.
Aside from mortgage deductions, there's yet another tax ploy for live-aboards: using your boat as your domicile for state tax purposes.
Critics say it was a questionable use of racketeering law, an election-year ploy to harass DeLay.
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But when newspapers intervene, isn't it just a cynical, money-making ploy designed to boost sales.
In retailing, employers use the 4-day-a-week ploy to skirt healthcare and allied employee benefits.
The ploy might buy short-term confidence as it will kick the debt dilemma somewhat further down the road.
But before anyone dismisses this as a mere marketing ploy or mystical mumbo-jumbo, take a look at last year's forecast.
An insider jokes that Morgan's underperformance relative to Goldman is a public-relations ploy to ensure that the firm remains more popular than its rival.
But as more and more taxpayers fall into the clutches of the Alternative Minimum Tax, and credits and phase-outs proliferate, this old-fashioned ploy doesn't always work.
Windows 8 and Surface together represent a prodigious bet to round out an eco-branding ploy which hits all major product categories with a consistent look and feel.
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Many Mexicans saw a guest-worker plan that Mr Bush outlined last January, which went part of the way towards meeting Mexican ambitions, as little more than an election ploy aimed at Hispanic-American voters.
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So perhaps it's not a big surprise that one corporate titan is now trying an age-old marketing ploy aimed at female drivers.
Reporters never knew about Opperman's big donation, which was disclosed only piecemeal, in eight different state capitals -- a deliberate ploy to avoid publicity, something insiders admit and outsiders say is obvious.
And I truly believe this was a combined public relations ploy as well as a wait-and-see approach.
His Euro-bashing looks like a ploy to confuse the issue and deflect criticism from the government.
Baker insists the public condemnation of Martin is not a ploy to put his struggling, left-wing party in the limelight.
It will still be a popular ploy for politicians to attack the short-term trading mentality and bonus culture that pervades investment banking.
Worcester resisted the temptation to follow their hosts' example, a ploy which was rewarded on the half-hour mark when, after a series of five-metre scrums, Goode pierced a gap in the Pirates' defence to cross for the Warriors' second try.
Whether Obama's plea is taken as an effective tactic that will help spur legislative action or is seen as a cheap, emotional ploy designed to push through a one-sided agenda depends on where you fall in the debate, political experts say.
Yesterday, Assad announced another PR ploy: the acceptance of an Arab League-brokered cease fire in his country.
It was a high-risk strategy, but a ploy that has worked well for Liverpool as they chase a trophy treble in a mammoth season.
There has been some suggestion that the tax-increase proposal is a Boehner ploy: Put the increase on the table and when the president rejects it Boehner can say he made concessions but the president refused them.
But Senate Republicans dismissed the no-confidence measure as a Democratic political ploy and stopped it from coming to a vote.
The ploy in question is called a SILO (sale-in, lease-out) deal.
It is reluctant to dole out more, partly because of criticism that it has been too kind to Asia's crisis-hit economies, partly as a ploy to force more serious promises of reform out of the Russians as a condition for help.
Meehan agreed, saying the Ney-Wynn bill was nothing more than a ploy to kill reform efforts.
This inhibits all peace-making, including Mr Barak's ploy of playing the Syrians against the Palestinians and vice versa.
The smaller in-goal areas were thought to be a ploy to blunt the effectiveness of the Australian kicking game.
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