Sentence examples for tactic at from inspiring English sources

Last month, he tried the tactic at a news conference -- and it worked.

Mr. Carney, the press secretary, fielded questions about the theoretical tactic at a news conference last week.

It was a successful tactic, at least at the ballot box, if not for making friends in parliament.

He had adopted a similar tactic at the Lisbon half marathon last year, before coming through the field to win.

It seemed like a good tactic — at least to people who work with victims of domestic violence.

He said: "There was a game played on Monday night between Everton and Newcastle which was a very exciting game and both teams used that tactic at times.

In 1894 Briand succeeded in getting the sharply divided French trade unionists to adopt the general strike as a political tactic at a workers' congress at Nantes.

"Opponents of capital punishment will use every tactic at their disposal to prevent any war criminal from being sentenced to death," Mr. Graham, a former military prosecutor, warned.

The final plan adopted by the administration also calls for using that kind of mechanical tactic, at a total cost of more than $10 million.

That tactic at Congressional inquiries went out of fashion years ago, after what seemed to be bullying by lawmakers investigating communists in American society in the 1950's.

This, it should be said, is not a "them and us" tactic at all – and that is a large part of the problem.