That is nothing but a propaganda ploy.

So if you have any ploy, try it against Me!

So if you have any ploy, try it against Me!

The clearest example is anti dumping, a ploy used whenever a country begins to succeed in competing with specific products.

In doing so, they typically inflame passions against religious and ethnic minorities. For regimes that represent economic elites (and are often corrupt to the core), it is a ploy that pays off handsomely at the polls.

To the dismay of many, Modi has underperformed economically, while the zealots have run amok, hijacking his development agenda. And his silence in the face of it all confirms what many in India had feared his economic sloganeering was merely a ploy to secure power.

The leaders of Belarus or Kazakhstan seemed equally surprised by Putin s statement, especially as Russia had just prohibited almost all imports of dairy products from Belarus in a protectionist ploy. After 16 years of negotiations, Russia appeared poised to join the WTO within a couple of months.

Erdoğan s supporters dismiss Western campaigns against Islamist terrorism as a ploy to repress Sunnis. As one such supporter, Kenan Alpay, nbsp recently wrote, Turkey cannot be a part of an international system that aims to dissolve all Islamic movements from the Muslim Brotherhood to hellip the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Aquino s approach to the negotiations reflected his recognition that the MILF had twice used peace talks once brokered by Libya s Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi as a cynical ploy to buy time to regroup and raise funds (including from Al Qaeda). With freshly restocked arsenals, they would relaunch their campaign to seize Mindanao by force.

From the German point of view, France only wants to solve its national budget and debt problems at Germany s expense, simultaneously weakening Germany s competitiveness. The French government, on the other hand, fears that the Germans commitment to eurozone stability is a ploy aimed at pushing France into a corner and leaving it behind economically.

But the US and its allies quickly rejected the agreement as an Iranian ploy designed to halt the growing momentum for additional sanctions. Turkey s insistence on pressing ahead with the deal caused tension with the US and fueled criticism at home and abroad that Erdoğan s government was shifting away from its long standing alliance with the West.

But, rather than focusing on the government s weaknesses energy, Europe, education, and family policy they bet their political fortunes on social justice. Merkel s Panglossian campaign was much more in tune with the sentiment of the German electorate than the opposing parties tristesse about working class distress, which was rightly seen as a ploy for raising taxes.

Article 203 of the Penal Code defines the offence of trafficking in persons as the recruitment or hiring of individuals, either with their consent or by means of threats, enticement, deceit or any other similar ploy, for the purpose of prostitution within or outside the Republic or the introduction of individuals into the country for the purpose of prostitution.

Then came a nationwide scare about love jihad an alleged Muslim ploy to make India a Muslim majority country by seducing Hindu girls into romantic entanglements that would lead to their conversion to Islam. No sooner had this BJP fueled hysteria been widely dismissed Muslims comprise 13 of India s population, and there have been only a handful of such marriages than the inflammatory rhetoric mounted.

Germany opposes the new bank resolution mechanism proposed by the European Commission, generating moral and political support at home by portraying its stance as an effort to protect German taxpayers Why should the German ants pay for the southern European grasshoppers? In fact, Germany s position is a ploy to hide its anticompetitive behavior, whereby the government subsidizes German banks and industry at the expense of everyone else including German taxpayers.

Once again, he was found not to have substantiated his alleged fears in the circumstances, there was no justification for continuing to hold in France an individual who had more than demonstrated that he was a danger to public order and whose complaint to the Committee was quite clearly no more than a ploy to gain time, despite the obvious good faith of the human rights associations that had supported his application.

But an attack by either Israel or the US on Iran s nuclear installations would be a calamitous mistake, or, as Meir Dagan, a former chief of Israel s Mossad intelligence service, put it, the stupidest idea possible. So it is to be hoped that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu s war rhetoric and vulgar manipulation of the memory of the Holocaust are nothing more than a ploy to divert the world s attention from the Palestinian problem that he has done nothing to resolve.

Article 202 of the current Penal Code defines the offence of procuring or pimping as the establishment or exploitation of places of prostitution or the inducement of another person, for purposes of profit and by means of physical or moral violence, abuse of authority or position, deceit or any other similar ploy, to enter or remain in such places of prostitution or to engage in any other form of sexual commerce. This offence is punishable by three to six years' imprisonment.