He can envision an academy of his creation as a means of promoting less predictable tactics, along with a return to youth sports sanity, while acknowledging how that might sound like a contradiction when taking into account his behavioral reputation.
For female politicians, invoking the name of Margaret Thatcher at a crucial time in your campaign is one of the canniest, most clichéd and most predictable of tactics.
Debuting Friday is The Woman in Black 2. This Daniel Redcliffe less sequel to a Daniel Radcliffe horror movie "quickly devolves into predictable shock tactics, drippy wartime romance and scenes in which the characters leaf tremulously through Victorian photo albums and spout exposition," according to Time Out.
But there's a pretty predictable set of tactics that are used to create false public perception.
Throughout the day, in public and behind the scenes, the administration mounted a fierce campaign to portray Iraq's sudden invitation to inspectors -- who have been banned by Iraq for three and a half years -- as a predictable and dangerous delaying tactic, devised by Mr. Hussein in an effort to split the United Nations Security Council.
In my article, I stated that the resistance we have seen and are continually experiencing to the White Privilege Conference, while venomous and blaming in tone, is nonetheless predictable in that these tactics have been employed time after time against individuals, groups and communities that have challenged oppression and dominant hegemonic discourses.
Lisicki's fondness for using her own powerful drives to set up a drop shot bore occasional fruit but the tactic quickly became predictable against an opponent whose hungry anticipation and long stride usually enabled her to reach the forecourt in time to nullify the threat.
What's most remarkable about the 76-year-old's long career is, perhaps, its restlessness: unlike most writers, she has never fallen into a groove of identifiable tactics or a predictable voice.
Clarkson, when he resigned the same year, was diplomatic: "The shock tactics had become predictable and so weren't shocking any more," he wrote in a column for Top Gear magazine, going on to display something like self-deprecation.
