Sentence examples for decisive tactic from inspiring English sources

Throughout the 1970s and 80s, divestment was a decisive tactic in the NUS campaign against apartheid in South Africa, particularly targeting Barclays Bank.

Combined with inefficient gunpowder and the difficulties inherent in firing accurately from moving platforms, this meant that boarding remained the primary tactic for decisive victory throughout the 16th century.

The Battles of Taraori, between Prithviraja III Cauhan and Muḥammad of Ghūr, were mainly engagements of cavalrymen armed with bows and spears; superior Ghūrid tactics were decisive.

For, as he shows, new weapons, processes and tactics are often decisive.

In the end, although many of the significant actions of the campaign were infantry engagements which occurred a long way from the Australian base areas where their technological superiority was limited, the Australians' use of combined arms tactics ultimately proved decisive.

These tactics of sea denial are those of predator and prey, of hunter and evader, and are as unique from the force-on-force tactics of major sea battles as are guerrilla war tactics from those of decisive land battle.

Mayweather ladies and gentleman, the Chelsea of boxing pic.twitter.com/ODF28SkkUp While some may have found his tactics dull, Mayweather's decisive victory takes him to 48-0 and a class above Manny Pacquiao, something his detractors can't argue with.

The problem for Judge Jackson in devising an acceptable remedy is that the government has failed to produce decisive evidence that Microsoft's illegal tactics have as yet seriously harmed consumers.

Yet tactics and nerve can be decisive, such that the mental element is often as important as pure speed.

Behind the scenes there is work to be done too: these are decisive days and rumours of pacts circulate, tactics and messages shifting with the campaign.

(Full disclosure... I'm not always so clear and decisive in the face of pushy sales tactics!).