This is simply a ploy to show the diplomatic community that the EPRDF is compromising with parties.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

And so it's an understandable ploy on Milton's part that he needs to vilify Shakespeare by identifying that great poet, his older contemporary, with Comus.

所以就弥尔顿而言，是一个可理解的事,他需要通过认同那伟大的诗句来贬低莎士比亚，用Comus来压倒比他年纪较大的同时代人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It was a transparent ploy to avoid Security Council action."

VOA: standard.2010.05.25