Word: ploy
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...shocked?shocked!?that the President would dare sully the nation's pristine electoral process through such nefarious interference. Their reading of the law held Roh's words to be a violation of election rules preventing the President from using the power of his office to influence parliamentary contests. The ploy was utterly transparent, but the written constitution gave them all the formal authority they needed to proceed with the motion...
Audience members suggested in a question-and-answer session after the speech that Bush’s moralistic language may be a cynical political ploy. But according to Singer, “if we want to have a real debate about the president’s policies, we should consider the possibility that he is sincere...
...writes, “cutting a path through American and English elms as I walked toward the area where I saw the most police activity.” The memoir even dares to end where it begins, a rhetorical device which ultimately feels like a shameless ploy for movie licensing rights...
Iscayau also thinks that Bush’s temporary amnesty proposal for illegal aliens, announced in January by the White House and immediately denounced by critics as an election year ploy to woo Hispanic voters, is a “bad plan...
When officials at the detention center where Yang was being held told him that his wife objected to his strike, Yang initially believed that it was a ploy to prevent him from striking, Fu said...