1.   But Tommy Tomsen, president of Maersk, insisted that his company was not using Baltimore as a bargaining ploy.

2.   Dullea said the parking issue was nothing but a bargaining ploy.

3.   However, they had previously announced wrongly that an agreement had been reached, possibly using the announcements as a bargaining ploy.

4.   However, Korean officials had previously announced wrongly that an agreement had been reached, possibly using such an announcement as a bargaining ploy.

5.   It appears to be a bargaining ploy, an act designed to show the unions that the owners can be tough.

6.   Some families will seemingly stoop to any bargaining ploy to pry a few more dollars out of an institution.

7.   But most observers who follow the company said Bestfoods was likely using the speculation as a bargaining ploy to extract a higher offer from Unilever.

8.   But North Korea reiterated that it is prepared to scrap the agreement and rejected suggestions that its resistance to accepting South Korean-made reactors is a bargaining ploy.

9.   He said he suspected it was simply a bargaining ploy.

10.   Some Korea watchers, however, said the timing was likely a bargaining ploy.