11.   Florida Republicans called the announcement a political ploy, but Chiles denied that the deportation program had anything to do with his re-election bid.

12.   He suggested that oil traders, seeing the approach of an election, might dismiss any action as a political ploy rather than a commitment to reverse oil prices.

13.   His hiding behind the skirts of the Florida secretary of state, Kathleen Harris, is a naked political ploy.

14.   His mission was to protect the president from a classic Washington political ploy.

15.   In fact, after the NIH guidelines were announced, Dickey dismissed them as a political ploy.

16.   It is a political ploy to give Republican candidates something to hide behind when Democrats attack them over their traditional coolness toward Social Security.

17.   It has to be a political ploy on his part.

18.   It is a political ploy that would yield a crude decision on a matter that should take a great deal of complex thinking.

19.   Jenkins denied that the agreement was a political ploy, saying he was motivated by the desire to improve the schools.

20.   Klima called the petition drive a political ploy by his opponents.