Sentence examples for Clumsy tactic from inspiring English sources

Using sanctions to force a solution to the outstanding ethnic conflict involving the Kachin armed group is a clumsy tactic that puts pressure only on the government and encourages the other side to fight on for a better deal.

That clumsy tactic led to a bigger uproar and prompted Mrs Gandhi a day later to announce that she had resigned as an MP and from the council, in what was billed as a sacrifice mirroring her earlier renunciation of the prime minister's job.

Youth, however, in motion pictures as well as in sport, has a habit of being served: so through his clumsy tactics.

Those statistics, says Click Forensics' marketing director Scott O'Brien, may be the result of more diligence on the part of search engines and other click fraud watchdogs to weed out clumsy tactics.

Clumsy US tactics and policies exacerbated a deteriorating situation.

Back in December of 2010, shortly after her release from house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi sat with me in a lounge in the tattered headquarters of her then deregistered political party, shaking her head at the clumsy surveillance tactics of the military junta's secret police and urging her followers to be patient.

One senior EU diplomat called Cameron's negotiating tactics "clumsy".

But the game does have identifiable tactics, though admittedly clumsy and improvisational ones.

These tactics, while often clumsy and heavy-handed, were a remarkable shift from the Kim government's decade-long defiance of U.N. calls to improve the human rights situation.

For a man who has built a career on bluffing and intimidation, Trump is surprisingly clumsy when it comes to those tactics, and oblivious of their costs.

In the words of the prominent Irish economics commentator David McWilliams, London's "bully-boy" tactics have been so clumsy that they may backfire.