11.   It was no negotiating ploy.

12.   It may only be a negotiating ploy that Gonzalez has suggested he wants to play someplace quiet, but people are not going to forget these sentiments.

13.   The agents suggest that after years of losses to the players in contract squabbles, this is nothing more than a negotiating ploy.

14.   The negotiating ploy bugged Van Gundy to no end.

15.   The Palestinians took the Cabinet threats as a negotiating ploy.

16.   The players have countered that Stern is making empty threats as negotiating ploys to rattle their resolve and inspire them to accept an unfavorable agreement.

17.   Their reward was to have their pension money from the game held hostage in what proved to be a costly negotiating ploy by ownership.

18.   Time Warner calls this a negotiating ploy.

19.   Turner Broadcasting executives dismiss the threat as a negotiating ploy, saying TNT is well worth the rate increase.

20.   While that may have been just a negotiating ploy, his fears are justified.