The suspect had packed the shorts with the drug and the ploy seemed to be going well until he was stopped and searched at Barcelona airport yesterday.
Some see this as a negotiating ploy.
He has so little respect for the average American voter that he thinks this reckless and cynical ploy will work.
When it looks like a ploy to divert the public's attention, too much talk can be corrosive, harming civil society and eroding trust in public institutions-exactly when it is most needed.
This is deeply distressing, given how hard they have worked throughout their academic lives, but perhaps a valuable strategic ploy.
There is no shortcut or marketing ploy. It’s about hard work and genuine hospitality.
You should reject this self-serving sympathy ploy.
It's a sleazy ploy that gets attention. What it doesn't get is followers.
Another then announced there had been no change in the prohibition and claimed the declaration of famine was a Western ploy to gain influence.
Origins: A time-honored ploy in the political arena has been to discredit your opponents (and their ideas) by demonizing them, by associating them with ... well, demons.