11.   This manifestly practical idea will be denounced as a cynical ploy, which I willingly risk to protect the good name of intervention.

12.   Protestant factions still consider the hunger strike a cynical ploy.

13.   News reports depicted it as a cynical ploy by the princess to curry public favor.

14.   Though criticized by some as a cynical ploy to divert attention from the lack of progress in Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations, interest has picked up internationally.

15.   U.S. officials viewed that statement as a cynical ploy.

16.   However, opponents of the republican movement warned that any eventual ceasefire may prove to be no more than a cynical political ploy.

17.   Some NGOs regard it as a cynical trading ploy based on unfair assumptions and with little real chance of tackling the problem at source.