Sentence examples for a tactical position from inspiring English sources

Because of that, he said, he "took up a tactical position" to try to assess the situation.

Or was the administration taking a tactical position in the California case that it thought one or two conservative justices might buy into, rather than going for a broader judgment?

As a Presidential candidate, Obama took a "tactical" position on marriage equality because he thought that his "real" position would be politically fatal to him (and, therefore, damaging to gay rights).

He didn't know, and no one was there to tell him, and he remembered reacting in those first seconds by doing what he believed he had been trained to do: taking cover in a tactical position so he could clear the area.

Long, who was set up in a tactical position to prepare for responding officers, immediately ambushed them.

But Peterson said he had believed the gunfire was coming from outside the school, which prompted his decision to seek a "tactical position" outdoors, DiRuzzo wrote.

Through music videos, tour appearances, red-carpet events, magazine profiles, and, perhaps especially, Instagram, Swift deployed her "squad" the way a politician uses a campaign slogan: as a tactical positioning, a means to an end.

Democrats in turn are now resisting steps, such as raising the eligibility age for Medicare, that they were willing to consider just a year and a half ago, when Boehner was in a better tactical position.

Michael managed to reach the Winter Palace, where he ordered the guards there to withdraw to the Admiralty, because it afforded greater safety and a better tactical position and because it was a less politically charged location.

"Mélenchon is unbeatable on this ground, so even though it might reflect Hamon's political convictions, it was a bad tactical position.

In any case, according to the editor of Nature (Anon, 1972b) "to chose this point in political history for a plea for stronger control by customers of how public money is spent is likely to warm the cockles of … hearts in the … Government, which means that Lord Rothschild is in a strong tactical position".