Sentence examples for sensible tactics from inspiring English sources

Had these sensible tactics been followed in 2003, admits the general, the Americans would not be facing their current troubles.

The English cried foul treachery, but the Spanish dismissed the action as sensible tactics when dealing with pirates.

We need direct action, and other activities using sensible tactics to show the Government we will not accept higher fees, and we will not accept cuts to higher education funding.

Given Rausing's own privilege, this seems a sensible tactic.

Downtown at Zuccotti Park, the police have adopted the more sensible tactic of leaving the protesters largely to their own devices.

It was a sensible tactic – overdue if anything – and one that surely should continue in the semi-finals.

Others see combining a cap-and-trade system with a nuclear aid package as a sensible tactic to get Congress to address environmental problems.

BERNARD LIROLA, manager of the Needham Growth fund, finds the purchase of new small caps a sensible tactic, but he advises checking companies' balance sheets to help avoid stocks destined to become even smaller.

Going in a group is a sensible tactic if you want to try more than one dish, and guarantee a bit of a buzz – at weekends, families fill up the two spacious dining rooms.

This is, says Tim Birkhead in Bird Sense, "a sensible energy-saving tactic" because brains are a big expense: the human brain for instance uses 10 times as much energy as any other organ.

In any football match it is a sensible and wholly justifiable tactic to focus on an opponents' weakness, whether that be a dodgy left-back, a goalkeeper who can't catch crosses, or – in Arsenal's case – a soft midfield.