Sentence examples for hostile tactics from inspiring English sources

No 10 insists the prime minister is not adopting hostile tactics towards the EU, although some pro-Europeans suggested that Cameron had crossed a line by appearing to use the threat of a referendum within a relatively short timetable to strengthen Britain's hand in the negotiations.

Colbert is (like me) a Hachette author and, angered by the hostile tactics of Amazon toward Hachette authors during a protracted renegotiating of ebook contracts, told his legions of fans to go out and buy a Hachette book from an independent bookseller instead, rocketing California on to the New York Times bestseller list.

It's always difficult to speak with certainty about internet censorship in China, as changes occur frequently and without warning, but more hostile tactics towards VPN services would be keeping with the government's tightening of web controls over the past nine months or so.

When parents repeatedly use those hostile tactics, their children suffer, they argue.

Investors included Coca-Cola, Georgia-Pacific and United Technologies corporate pension funds, as well as endowments from MIT, Harvard and the New York State Common Retirement Fund However, KKR faced criticism from existing investors over the firm's use of hostile tactics in the buyout of RJR.

But slowing traffic can be done in harsh ways: Speed bumps, traffic circles and the intentional bottlenecks known as chokers are auto-hostile tactics that do little for pedestrians.

Publishers have reacted to Google and Facebook sucking up their ad revenue by resorting to these user-hostile tactics.

Controlling and hostile emotional tactics, like belligerence and domineering, were less common among gay couples.

But he seemed to miss the point that the city's minority communities were in a state of chronic fear about careless or hostile police tactics.

Published by North Korean state media KCNA, the letter urges an end to "hostile military tactics" in the Korean peninsula, weeks before the South is due to hold joint military drills with the US.

Over the last three years, they've tried every Wall Street hostile takeover tactic in the book".