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Under the circumstances, the GOP’s insistence that the healthcare subsidies be taken out of the current budget debate and deferred to the end of the year looks like a cynical ploy.

Is the Southern California Edison settlement proposal a fair deal or a ploy to avoid bigger payouts?

Some said the move was merely a ploy by Fico to distract attention from falling poll ratings and unpopular policies.

He later claimed that his escape was a ploy to get his sentence extended and avoid extradition to Thailand, where he was wanted for five more murders and was sure to get the death penalty.

Reform denounced the plan as a "cynical ploy to fool voters that something is being done about illegal immigration".