Sentence examples for tactic that failed from inspiring English sources

The government also tried to accuse us of fraud by referring the matter to the Serious Fraud Office – a tactic that failed.

The whole process may have been a long-running negotiation tactic that failed to pan out for Ankara.

The list of tactics that failed to thwart her behavior was long.

The question, then, is not what tactics are used, but why the Army chose to reuse tactics that failed in Vietnam.

They'd combine this with the usual scare tactics and terror-mongering--tired old tactics that failed in 2006.

Mr. Pelley points out that some in the Pentagon were concerned that the president might immediately launch missiles toward Osama bin Laden, a tactic that had failed before.

He said he had only ever advocated human and legal rights and equality for Uighurs.Mr Zhang, the legal scholar, sees his own dismissal as a scare tactic that will fail in the long term as the dissonance grows between politics and everyday life.

"The Syrian military and the opposition fighters must both adhere to international humanitarian law, which strictly forbids the use of tactics and weapons that fail to distinguish between military and civilian targets," he added.

The strategy and tactics that have failed since 1997 will have to be re-visited and critiqued in earnest.

James Kennedy, a spokesman for Mr. Clinton, said attacking him for his personal life was a tactic that had already failed.

The hospitals are given code names by local doctors to try to obscure their locations and prevent attack — a tactic that has clearly failed.