In response the British adopted counter-insurgency tactics, including a scorched earth policy involving the burning of houses and crops, the establishment of concentration camps for Boer women and children, and a system of blockhouses and field obstacles to limit Boer mobility and to protect railway communications.
This is another category of risk, when hedging enormous positions by adopting counter-positions.
Back in the day, performers could adopt counter-cultural personas based on cool aloofness or grizzled decadence and still watch the record and ticket sales rack up.
Although several thousand Pakistani soldiers have died fighting Islamist extremists, the Pakistani security establishment has been slow to adopt counter-insurgency methods of war fighting.
As it would be impossible to limit calls to occur only during task boundaries, HCWs would have to learn to cope by adopting counter-measures such as deliberately slowing down their work processes during the phone interruption.
To assess how well our original narrative dataset has been purged from measures adopted with counter cyclical motivations, we analyze the predictability of our "exogenous" tax shocks following movements of output, government spending, inflation, and the short-term interest rate.
As the American military has adopted the counter-insurgency principles advocated by General David Petraeus, the soon to be replaced commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, it has come to believe that it is essential to enlist Afghans as our allies.
The nearest we got to cultural diversity was the strange Catholic schoolmate who fanatically adopted the counter-bigotry of Rangers and adorned his schoolbooks with the Red Hand of Ulster.
We present design rules for adopting the counter architecture to a certain application.
He doesn't imagine that anti-natalism could ever be widely adopted: "It runs counter to too many biological drives".
Mark Carney left the City convinced that borrowing costs would be pegged at 0.5% for the rest of 2014 and beyond after saying that the UK could not cope with an end to the emergency measures adopted five years ago to counter the worst recession since the second world war.
