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Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Even if one could prove that a set of measured responses to specific terrorist acts was effective, or that it's always a good idea to alter terrorists' cost-benefit calculations, there's the problem implied by the tactic's name: people on the receiving end of terrorism, and not just the immediate victims, do, in fact, enter a state of terror.

But the tactic's potency has faded.

And this leads to questions of safety: How to contain the tactic's effects?

One of the tactic's main tenets: adopting a zero tolerance policy for low-level infractions to help prevent bigger offenses.

Reasons for the tactic's rising popularity can be found at both ends of the consumer sophistication spectrum.

But some New Yorkers, while conceding that the police show favoritism for one race over another, said the stop-and-frisk tactic's ends justified the means.

That's Jessie's, Palpie's, Lydia's and Natalie's tactic, but not Casey's.

Just in case there was any lingering doubt about the campaign's tactics, Mr. Cain's lawyer, L. Lin Wood, said (ominously) that women should "think twice" before coming forward.

Dhirubhai's tactics appalled India's establishment.

The Council's tactics resemble television's approach to covering bad weather.

"I understand politics, and I understand Governor Christie's tactics," the union's president, Barbara Keshishian, said.