Sentence examples for by such a tactic from inspiring English sources

It is extremely rude to hang up and a customer will be very frustrated by such a tactic.

In most years, and against most Republicans, such a tactic by a Democratic candidate might prove futile, given the region's decided Republican registration advantage and generally conservative edge.

The revision to the guidelines would bar such a tactic by saying that the "suspect exception" may only be invoked "when the member of the news media is the focus of the criminal investigation for conduct going beyond ordinary news-gathering activities".

Such a tactic was employed by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1980, when it began to audition musicians blindly.

But his robust defence of News Corporation's insider lobbying tactics was not matched by such a sure touch elsewhere, as his evidence revealed him to be incurious about phone hacking and uninterested in newspapers.

Membership in a foreign terrorist organization was made a crime after Sept. 11, but the authorities noticed only after the arrest of Mr. Dürbin earlier this year that a nonmember who was getting trained in terror tactics by such an organization was not committing a crime at all.

As a graduate of Harvard College, I was at the time much offended by such tactics at a once-in-a-lifetime event honoring Harvard's long history.

Coghlan said he was offended by such underhanded tactics and knew he was going to get out a warning about this dirty trick, but he said he played along for the full 20-minute "poll".

Public officials so routinely enlist in a fight against the most high-profile malady of the day that even those offended by such transparent tactics have come to accept them.

By 2004 he faced a diminished crop of candidates, second-tier party leaders who either expressed support for Putin's re-election or foundered in oblivion, barred from television appearances and harassed by such government tactics as untimely fire inspections at campaign rallies.

"Whole regions of Russia are being impoverished" by such tactics, Wolosky wrote.