Sentence examples for routine tactic from inspiring English sources

This had become almost a routine tactic in New York station houses by the 1920's; the reformers were able to curtail its use in good part by pointing out that the most notorious gangland figures were able to avoid such treatment by way of bribery and intimidation.

Cutting him out of the discussion has become a routine tactic for other DC power players—White House economic adviser Gary Cohn reportedly did just that by faking a bad connection to get Trump off the phone during a recent tax reform discussion.

The crew members were using routine tactics, said Larry Helmerick, a Rocky Mountain Fire Information Office spokesman.

Domesticating Ukraine through his routine tactics of threats and bribery was his first preference, but the invasion has had side benefits.

The incredulity with which she greets her new minister, the barely concealed scorn for the very person he is, the routine tactics she deploys to control and humiliate him, it is all good Yes, Minister stuff.

In an earlier filing in the case, they said that the lawsuit merely described routine dealmaking tactics and labels them anticompetitive.

But what's remarkable is how routine these tactics have become as a means of pursuing nonviolent suspects and low-level investigations, particularly in the war on drugs.

"We play into the Isil narrative when we act as if they are a state and we use routine military tactics that are designed to fight a state that is attacking another state.

Obtaining a business license and hiring a lawyer is a routine money laundering tactic for everyone from the mafia to terrorists to, more commonly, petty fraud scammers.

Such a tactic is routine in criminal cases.

That's not unusual, except prosecutors usually don't drag wives in, except of course on Law and Order, where the tactic is routine.