Sentence examples for harmful tactics from inspiring English sources

Under these circumstances, Unocal contends that its directors properly employed this device to protect the company and its stockholders from Mesa's harmful tactics.

Yet the Taliban's statements did not square with the facts, and they adopted increasingly harmful tactics, according to the United Nations report.

The law was passed in reaction to what California saw as deceptive and harmful tactics employed by the CPCs in order to mislead women seeking abortions to come to them instead.

Yet if we do not act to improve the confirmation process, those who are today deploying harmful tactics and maneuvers to thwart nominees will sooner or later find the tables turned.

Clearly angered by the contention by the National Association for Variable Annuities and other trade groups that there is no evidence of widespread abuse in the sale of variable annuities, a combination of mutual funds and insurance, Paul F. Roye, an S.E.C. division director, cited a shopping list of harmful tactics, including misleading marketing and failure to disclose material facts.

It pushes the entrepreneur to unnatural and harmful tactics to meet this valuation, or to eventually fundraise again at a lower valuation – or at a higher valuation from whatever out-of-tune investor they can find to do – then seriously struggle to exit.

Once webmasters wised up, they moved on to an equally harmful tactic - over-optimizing internal links.

The group and the S.E.C. also issued a joint report on harmful sales tactics that they said they hoped would lead brokerage houses and insurance agents to voluntarily make changes in the way they sell variable annuities.

Tensions have been high since Brown's Aug. 9 shooting, as thousands of protesters have rallied in Ferguson and around the nation, speaking out against harmful police tactics and racial profiling.

After that, she began cycling through different medications and periods of institutionalization, including being held in a program that she said used harmful and abusive tactics.

Asked if the supermarket tactics were harmful to the bookselling industry, he says: "It looked like booksellers were going to be hard done by.