Sentence examples for a central tactic from inspiring English sources

A central tactic by Downing Street – to delay a ministerial reshuffle to persuade aspiring MPs to support the government – backfired as loyalists joined the rebels who numbered close to 100.

Intimidation of the media has been a central tactic of every Egyptian regime in recent years, and the fight by journalists to resist such intimidation has been a vital component of the country's broader battle against state tyranny.

We made history despite the ugly campaign of fear and lies run by John McCain, a central tactic of which was to demonize ACORN and, in classic guilt-by-association innuendo, raise questions about President-Election Obama's fitness for office.

Another resource I could no longer fall back on was the demonization of the smoker, a central tactic of Carr's that had not only helped wean me in the first place, but also cocooned me from relapsing.

Increasingly, cancer preventive strategies must go beyond only a central tactic of avoiding exposure to listed carcinogens as applicable to everyone and encompass complex environmental circumstances as they impact upon individually determined susceptibility.

In a blow to Downing Street's central tactic of distancing itself from Fox – saying that he was operating in his own way – the Conservative party admitted that its senior treasurer was the conduit for donors to the former defence secretary.

And this is indicative of what seems to be Dean's central tactic for defining himself as both a liberal crusader and a centrist governor: he wants the credit for defying liberal orthodoxy, but he doesn't want to defy it in any way that might actually cost him liberal support.

Airstrikes away from conventional battlefields, using both piloted aircraft and remotely operated drones, began to escalate toward the end of the George W. Bush administration and became a central counterterrorism tactic in Mr. Obama's first term.

The central tactic was the organization of teenagers to confront and provoke armed soldiers by throwing rocks at them.

The central tactic was to sweep villages in the country's Sunni heartland — the center of the insurgency — and haul in the military-age men.

It was becoming clear that I.E.D.s were the central tactic of the insurgency, and the bomb squad, which, like most people, I didn't know much about.