Sentence examples for tactic for maintaining from inspiring English sources

Instead, it shows that divide and rule is an endlessly useful tactic for maintaining the status quo.

In other unstable places, from the Caucasus to the Middle East, it has often given the impression that keeping conflict on the boil is the best tactic for maintaining influence.

In parallel to labour agitation, the suffragists, fighting for women's rights, resorted to militant tactics that not only embarrassed Asquith's government but tested the whole local and national machinery for maintaining order.

He says because the UK is unique in allowing protesters and police to come face to face, some sort of technique for maintaining public order is necessary, and "kettling", which was developed on his watch, is the current tactic.

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"These environmental challenges are the unions' major tactic to maintain their share of industrial construction — we call it greenmail," said Kevin Dayton, state government affairs director for the Associated Builders and Contractors of California.

The trial, which is expected to last about two months, will determine what penalties Microsoft should face for using illegal tactics to maintain its operating system monopoly.

"It will be an excuse for cracking down and using strong-arm tactics to maintain law and order, which, carried to an extreme, could bring about a repressive political system," he said.

The companies and their lawyers smugly used scorched-earth tactics and maintained their almost perfect record.

Rarely have the tactics to maintain argument within acceptable bounds been more obvious.

But even as local voters shun him for his "bully tactics," Christie simply maintains he's just "telling it like it is" — which has since become his official campaign slogan.