Sentence examples for only a tactic from inspiring English sources
First, as Ariel Sharon has amply demonstrated, ruthlessness is not a policy; it is only a tactic.
He reiterated the Hamas position that the bid for United Nations membership was only a "tactic" aimed at improving the basis for negotiations.
JS: I don't know that it's disappearing, but it's only a tactic.
This tactic too is making it harder for Israel to make peace, because many Israelis fear that any agreement is only a tactic that will lead to further attacks on the legitimacy of the Jewish state and calls for a single bi-national state, which would inevitably become yet another Muslim Arab state.
A prodigiously researched, intellectually distinguished life of the psychiatrist from Martinique who propagandized for Algerian independence in the 1950's and sought to justify violence not only as a tactic but also as therapy for the oppressed.
A popular book on Abraham Lincoln, Team of Rivals, seems to have prompted Obama to suppose that Lincoln himself "led from behind" and was committed to bipartisanship not only as a tactic but as an always necessary means to the highest good of democracy.
Some people would say that I am paranoid to think that a person like Daryl Hannah, upon meeting a young girl like Abi Mae, would step in under the guise of mentor only as a tactic to take out her competition.
This would be only a stalling tactic, though.
Still, MGM's move may prove to be only a negotiating tactic.
Perhaps it was only a negotiating tactic by the auction house, but Mr. Davidge felt the company was setting him up to take the blame if the dormant antitrust investigation resurfaced, friends said.
