Sentence examples for failed tactic from inspiring English sources

Non-participation, he argued, was a failed tactic.

Since locking myself in the room is a tried and failed tactic, those are usually the times where I can go out and enjoy myself as well.

So which is it: the "profile in courage" that the New York Times admired, the evasive cop-out that conservatives denounced or the failed tactic that horserace handicappers predicted would not placate white swing voters?

On one side of the rope is the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the Saudi-led group whose strategy for retaining market dominance has twirled from one failed tactic to another as it struggles to conquer a glut that will almost surely suppress prices for at least another year.

As my colleague Dr. Kelton Rhoads, reminds us: "People are generally unable to distinguish a successful tactic in a failed campaign, or a failed tactic in a winning campaign.

Other Republicans consider this a nutty attempt to repeat a failed tactic in the hope of achieving a different result.

Paramilitary forces remain active despite failed demobilization tactics between 2002 and 2006, and they continue to commit rights abuses.

"Maine's 2017 overdose data show how failed these tactics have been," said Regina LaBelle, the former chief of staff at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Obama administration.

Whether Couche-Tard's bid or Casey's subsequent lawsuit succeeds or fails, the tactic could leave its mark on the deal-making rule book.

Much of modern marketing, complicated as it is, relies on a string of try-and-fail tactics.

"As each tactic failed to find evidence of criminal conduct, rather than abandoning the quest, the government simply came up with a new tactic," he wrote.