Sentence examples for tactic that does from inspiring English sources

To Peter King of SI.com, firing the defensive coordinator Juan Castillo reeks of a diversionary tactic that does nothing to solve the team's real woes.

Mr. Rajaratnam is not expected to testify, a tactic that does not surprise criminal defense lawyers following the case, who say that the defendant's testimony in this case is fraught with peril.

Many of the bombs were guided by satellite, a tactic that does not require flying so low or involve special forces on the ground to shine lasers at individual targets.

Even as the nation wrestles with the need to reduce Medicare costs, there is news from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston about one tactic that does not seem to be working: hospitalists, those doctors who work full time in hospitals caring for patients.

The evidence is that the attrition of mid-level commanders has had an effect, with a big decline in complex attacks on security forces, both local and ISAF, and an increase in the indiscriminate laying of roadside IEDs (improvised explosive devices) that kill and wound civilians disproportionately a tactic that does little to sustain local support for the Taliban.

So that's a tactic that doesn't work.

It was a tactic that did not go unnoticed.

It was a tactic that did wonders for the sales figures of Wonderbra and French Connection.

It was a tactic that did not pay off, as the British closed the gap to less than one-hundredth of a second at the 3000m mark and from then the outcome was never in doubt.

Pointing out the horrendous weather in Chicago was one tactic that didn't work.

It was a tactic that didn't prevent revolution – and which by some estimates cost the country $18 million in lost economic activity per day – but it was also easy enough to achieve and extremely hard to resist, thanks not least to the consequences that internet service provider employees (themselves very much physically present in Egypt) were likely to face if they failed to comply.