The network raised their offer, thinking it was a bargaining ploy.

In any event, the offer was a platitude and a bargaining ploy, not to be taken seriously.

No, it had all been some sort of a bargaining ploy, obviously, not intended to be taken seriously.

The President's suggestion of "other courses of action" might have been no more than a bargaining ploy.

Is the American move just a bargaining ploy?

In this sense, a threat could be a bargaining ploy.

We couldn't believe he wasn't going back to Cleveland, that this wasn't just a bargaining ploy.

But Russia's current resistance may be a bargaining ploy.

But union officials say those threats were a bargaining ploy.

Some families will seemingly try any bargaining ploy to pry a few more dollars out of an institution.