Sentence examples for false tactic from inspiring English sources

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Republicans are using a tried and false tactic.

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"The opposition claim has been proven to be an utterly false scare tactic," said Natalie Menten, spokeswoman of Colorado Tax Reforms.

The eminent climate economist Nicholas Stern has condemned the counterposing of economic growth with climate action as a false and diversionary tactic that could damage prospects for agreement at the Paris climate talks in December.

In December, National Action Financial Services paid $85,000 in penalties and costs to settle an investigation by the state attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, into the use of "abusive, false and misleading tactics" to collect debts.

Ideologues propose false choices because the tactic rhetorically transforms their radical ideas into the only plausible and acceptable ones.

In 2003, Memarian was himself put in prison in Iran and coerced into making a false confession, a familiar tactic used against those held on political grounds.

Then yesterday came word that it might have been a false alarm, a negotiating tactic to strengthen Moscow's leverage in economic talks with the European Union, and that Russia was indeed "moving toward" ratification.

This is an old scare tactic and false choice that has been disproven over and over.

Field, the resident, said that many in the community fear the development plan is a "false front … a tactic to achieve something else".

Merchant ships have used false flags as a tactic to evade enemy warships since antiquity, and examples can be found from as early as the Roman era through to the Middle Ages.

During crusades, the Europeans not only aimed at conquering Jerusalem, they also discredited Allah as a false god -a war tactic that inspired the annihilation of a "spiritually inferior" but militarily powerful Islamic empire.

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