Sentence examples for former tactic from inspiring English sources

In some rare cases the former tactic works but it hasn't worked in a long while.

Generally, populations in the southern portion of the range exhibit the former tactic, and populations in the northern portion exhibit the latter tactic (Healey 1991).

Mr. Mason does not quite repudiate his former tactics.

Some feared this might lead them to derail Nepal's frail peace process, by organising countrywide strikes, or even by returning to war.The Maoists' tentative triumph certainly owes something to their former tactics.

Veterans of Gamaa al-Islamiya, the ultraconservative Islamist group that waged a terrorist campaign in Egypt two decades ago and later renounced violence, said that since the military takeover they had been warning angry jihadis to shun their group's former tactics.

The Real IRA, which has a small but active unit in Derry, has adopted the former tactics of the Provisional IRA, which used so-called punishment shootings to build up support and sympathy within communities where the police did not traditionally operate.

The former tactics of the Metropolitan Police's special demonstration squad in stealing the identities of dead children has also caused uproar.

The NYU-Stanford report also touches on a truly disturbing issue: the alleged targeting of rescuers and funerals, the former a tactic that - as the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald virtually alone has addressed- had been cited by the US' Homeland Security Unit in the past as a hallmark of terrorist practices.

"I was absolutely disgusted to learn that MSU was using such an invasive tactic," former gymnast and Nassar survivor Larissa Boyce told HuffPost in an email.

Even by the standards of business practices in the former Soviet Union, these tactics appeared blunt.

At times this led to deceptive tactics, former loan agents say.