Some in Washington questioned whether the pledge he made Wednesday to step cede power in 2013 was sincere, or a clever tactic to appease his enemies in Yemen.
Tarnishing critics' reputations is a clever tactic -- the case for defamation, libel or slander are expensive and difficult to pursue.
It's a clever tactic and one that looks like it'll keep us hooked for a years to come.
It's quite a clever tactic, but it doesn't take away from the fact that, for example, there is no justification for subsidising yet more fossil fuel extraction from the North Sea.
Pushing for a Security Council vote might have been a clever tactic, but it clearly was not well thought out and the negative consequences which many, including the Jordanian representative, had predicted, have come true.
He will not at least not officially be there because he was head of a laboratory (the Sanger Institute, in Cambridge, England) that did much of the donkey-work for the publicly funded human-genome sequencing effort.It is a clever tactic.
If the claim was merely legal posturing, it turned out to be a clever tactic.
"He plays the innocent, he plays the fool, and that is a clever tactic".
Others said it was a clever tactic and would upstage Mr. McCall.
It's a clever tactic that should find broad appeal amongst tech experts and new users alike.
To Bernard Baumohl, managing director of the Economic Outlook Group, such talk is seen on Wall Street as a clever tactic intended to help jawbone inflationary expectations downward while the Fed continues to cut rates for at least a while longer.
