Reid's aides said yesterday that their boss decided on the dramatic, attention-grabbing ploy because he was weary of GOP foot-dragging on a promised inquiry by the Senate intelligence committee into the Bush administration's handling of prewar intelligence on Iraq. We'd had enough press conferences and requests, public and private, ... Now it was time to act.
Quotes about ploy (16 Quotes)
No. Absolutely not. This is absolutely ridiculous. This is nothing but a desperate ploy by Mayor Sulzer to take attention away from a floundering campaign.
We know that there are still some in the Senate who think that they may have a chance to keep this bill from becoming law, ... We say to them, 'Look what happened in the House. Opponents in the House used every conceivable argument and excuse, every imaginable ploy. They failed and so will you.'
Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
He sends them a letter expressing his appreciation to them for their inspiration, guidance and encouragement for him being at the academy. It is not a motivational ploy to try to get our football team excited to play our opponent. If you're not excited about playing Wyoming then you are brain dead.
It's merely, entirely and completely a public relations ploy to try to divert attention from the extremely strong case the commission has against Microsoft for failure to comply with the commission's decision.
This was her rather crafty ploy to make sure that we pay a whole lot of attention to safety. It would be one thing for Russ to break a leg in an accident. It would be a completely different thing to break one of Anna's legs,
I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.
Black-Yellow-Green is not a tactical ploy, but a realistic option. A grand coalition would be the alternative and far less desirable.
For a ploy hatched in hell, don't expect angels for witnesses.
They want to blame us for disagreeing with them, ... It's a typical ploy. ... The police were the ones who turned this into a mistake. They thought they would embarrass us.
There was one ploy of Gattling's which I found particularly effective, and I believe it must have been about this time that I first murmured to myself the word Lifemanship'.
More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy 'The supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.'
This was basically a ploy to sell to the international community that he is interested in democracy, which he is not. The world community now knows he has no support.
It wasn't a ploy, it was heartfelt and something I felt that from a continuity standpoint, I have strong ideas on what is necessary. Familiarity and continuity are certainly two intangibles that are absolute musts for a club to be successful.
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.