These days, with two years of experience in the EU, the Greek-Cypriots use more subtle techniques to deal with Athens.
Others call for more subtle techniques, like the state-supported creation of Russia's first Muslim television channel, which began broadcasting last week on the country's largest cable network.
These new countries won their independence not by the force-on-force clash of conventional armies and advanced weaponry but through more subtle techniques of subversion, hit-and-run, and, often, use of terrorism.
Maintain an air of mystery and control by avoiding speaking when you can use a more subtle technique to communicate.
The accusations against Mr. Skilling range from outright criminal violations that significantly affected reported profits to more subtle earnings-management techniques widespread in corporate America in the 1990's.
When it comes to the Internet, most authoritarian states have long ago gone beyond the static model, where all they did to control online discussions was to censor and filter the Web, moving on to more subtle spin-based techniques, which have more in common with corporate astroturfing than with Stalin-era censorship.
With plays increasingly calling for a deeper understanding of psychological motivation, Stanislavsky saw the necessity for a more complex and subtle technique for transforming the thought processes and emotions of the actor into those of the character.
Although this online context has varying effects on different individuals with users having different motivations for online social interaction and engagement [23], forms of power are more subtle and widespread being a technique used to effect change.
The two most widely used planet-hunting techniques rely on more subtle clues, as the motion of orbiting planets affects the light from the stars they orbit, as seen from Earth.The first technique, the "radial velocity" method, exploits the fact that an orbiting planet causes its star to wobble slightly, and the heavier the planet and the tighter its orbit, the bigger the wobble.
Although whole-genome approaches for degraded RNA samples have improved over the last few years, the performance of current techniques to detect more subtle differences between cancer subtypes remains to be confirmed.
Notably, the latter technique reproduced the more subtle differences in pore size and membrane thickening observed with the primary cells.
