Sentence examples for deflection tactic from inspiring English sources

If an attempted deflection tactic, it was clumsily thought out, let alone executed.

It surely went beyond his usual deflection tactics.

Spurs may have been clinical, but the visitors were brittle and all the complaints about the non-award of a penalty when Oscar prodded a ball against the grounded Jan Vertonghen's arm smacked of deflection tactics.

It is similar to other rhetorical deflection tactics Trump routinely employs, such as stressing the importance of nearly everything, claiming he is "looking into" over two dozen policy proposals and evading reporter questions via his "roaring" helicopter.

Make no mistake, had Moyes used similar deflection tactics he would have been criticised so Van Gaal can expect no different - in fact even less so given the money he has been allowed to lavish on his restructured team.

But one of the GOP's go-to deflection tactics risks backfiring: Touting the approval of the 60 Plus Association, a conservative astroturf group that supported then-President George W. Bush's Social Security privatization effort in 2005.

Deflection is Trumpian tactic.

Mr Hosie said the chancellor had only made a "glib reference" to the UK's decision to leave the EU and accused him of using a tactic of "deflection" to avoid the topic.

It appears we are collectively awakening to this patriarchal tactic of deflection and hopefully clarifying our value judgements.

The fifth tactic was diversion and deflection.

If that's not comfortable for you, deflection and changing the subject is another tactic couples can use: "Not yet, but we'll keep you posted".