Claiming the middle ground is a standard — some would say a defining — Obama tactic.
It makes every decision an important one, and comes to define your tactics in a wider sense.
Son defined his tactics as "diplomatic warfare" in which both Softbank and the firm it sought to acquire gained something without having engaged in an all-or-nothing confrontation.
S/T/A is used to define strategies, tactics and actions for adaptations.
The aims of the study were to: (a) describe the species composition from a professional small-scale fishery, (b) define fishing tactics, target and incidentally caught species and (c) test the adequacy of the minimum landing sizes (MLS) based on the EU regulation 1967/2006 in relation to fishing tactics and target species.
The work by the Center for Constitutional Rights is the latest in a series of examinations of the police tactic defined by a Supreme Court decision from decades ago, Terry v. Ohio, which permitted officers to detain someone briefly based on "reasonable suspicion," a threshold lower than the probable cause necessary for a formal arrest.
Each tactic defines a condition for its applicability, a set of actions (that apply changes to the system) and a set of effects, which may be regarded as adaptation post-conditions.
"These seizures bear the same defining features and tactics across diverse locations, including takeover of government administration buildings and security headquarters, seizure of weapons in the targeted buildings, forced removal of local officials, rapid establishment of roadblocks and barricades, attacks against communications towers, and deployment of well-organized forces".
And this is indicative of what seems to be Dean's central tactic for defining himself as both a liberal crusader and a centrist governor: he wants the credit for defying liberal orthodoxy, but he doesn't want to defy it in any way that might actually cost him liberal support.
Thomas Szasz once said that "keeping another person waiting is a basic tactic for defining him as inferior and oneself as superior".
