Sentence examples for an acceptable tactic from inspiring English sources

agents asked whether it would be an acceptable tactic if illegal weapons were given "to the criminals with A.T.F.'s knowledge and/or participation, to be released into the community, and possibly into Mexico".

To blur the boundaries of life and fiction, as Nin did, has gone beyond being an acceptable tactic of experimental writers, and is now practiced by reality-television producers and popular novelists alike.

"51% label doing so as 'inappropriate' to just 37% who consider it to be an acceptable tactic".

Now, whether this strike is authorized, or deemed by the people as an acceptable tactic in negotiations -- that's the topic of another class, on another occasion.

I teach my students that emotional manipulation is a deceptive, but ethically acceptable tactic.

It was perhaps karma that James fouled out after his recent expositions that flopping is an acceptable competitive tactic.

Following the first debate on foreign policy a couple weeks ago, critics push backed hard against candidates who said that waterboarding is an acceptable interrogation tactic -- or who casually used the phrase "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" as a euphemistically-handy way to dodge the real issue.

Mr. McCain, according to a Senate aide of his, believes that while the C.I.A. should be — and is — prohibited from using cruel and inhumane and degrading tactics, it should have the flexibility to use acceptable tactics that are not listed in the Field Manual.

The United States faces a serious fiscal crisis not because of the continuing sequester or the partial government shutdown per se, but rather because of what those experiences indicate about what will be considered acceptable tactics in the imminent fiscal confrontation over raising the debt ceiling.

While the CIA maintained that these techniques did not amount to torture, the document states that the list of acceptable tactics to use on detainees was "curtailed for prudential reasons to avoid to avoid putting CIA officers in jeopardy of vexatious civil or criminal litigation".

Cohn writes that disinvitation "teaches students the wrong lesson: that keeping anyone on campus from hearing views with which some people disagree, rather than the more difficult task of engaging in critical thinking and refuting those views, is an acceptable and successful tactic". The truth is that many of FIRE's cited incidents are nothing of the kind.