1.   As such, the flight has been criticized as a blatant publicity ploy by NASA to revive the flagging interest in human space flight.

2.   But other experts said the announcement was a dubious publicity ploy that appeared to be backfiring as political and religious leaders lined up to denounce the work.

3.   But the Alabama House of Representatives fell for a publicity ploy and voted to grant Andretti honorary citizenship.

4.   Easton confined his remarks to an apology to McCain, whom Easton had suggested was using the issue as a publicity ploy for his presidential aspirations.

5.   He has been very public with his environmental concerns, prompting skeptics to talk about just more publicity ploys.

6.   One asked whether the whole thing was a publicity ploy.

7.   Some wonder whether it will be, in the end, anything more than a publicity ploy to draw eyes to the Web site and to the HBO series.

8.   The art form that for years has been written off as a publicity ploy now coyly wants to be pretty and practical.

9.   The report released Monday contained no inference that the killing was a premeditated Palestinian publicity ploy.

10.   Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic invited him as part of his latest offer to negotiate, which his Bosnian Muslim enemies called a publicity ploy.