But Streaker needed a first-class pilot for this desperate ploy.

In a desperate last ploy, he calls earnestly to his cousin, reminding him of the plans they had to take a vacation that summer.

Presumably the pundits are right, and Dole's desperate ploy will fail.

Then she recognized the advice for what it was - a desperate ploy to keep her in the house.

Now he would discover whether this savage and desperate ploy had been effective.

You share neither in the desperate ploys nor the false mirth.

Maybe this desperate ploy wasn't as farfetched as he feared.

He dismissed the entire issue as a desperate ploy of lawyers who see that the tide has turned against them.

The desperate ploy extended hope by a few more seconds and kept him in a universe where she might be alive just a little longer.

It will be a desperate ploy to make Brown belatedly look a statesman in this matter.