Basic psychological processes through which specific interrogative tactics exert their effects have been considered.
"It's been an avenue through which people have become more interested in tactics.
Establishing a corridor through which wildlife can move is a well-established conservancy tactic, said Robert McDonald, a landscape ecologist with the Nature Conservancy.
With no army, institutions, or legal system through which to exercise control, Karzai turned to a more basic tactic: divide and rule.
As empires grew and their armies became too large to live off the lands through which they passed, disruption of their supply fleets also became a powerful tactic.
Wholesalers, who work in distribution hubs such as Amsterdam, sell at the market price instead of trying to enforce a monopoly through violence a tactic which, these days, invites police repression.
("Each social force attempts to secure its objectives through the resources and tactics in which it is strongest").
The government opted to use a heavy-handed and rare constitutional tactic which allows policies to be pushed through without a parliamentary debate after it failed to win over its own group of rebels.
Gramm then pushed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 through in a midnight budget amendment, a tactic which made sure that "credit default swaps" were not subject to either securities regulations or gambling laws.
