Sentence examples for tactic whereby from inspiring English sources

(A backwash squeeze, by the way, is an obscure offensive tactic whereby a player, facing a certain arrangement of cards, forces an opponent to make a certain kind of self-defeating discard).

Mother Jones has a good analysis of push-polling, a tactic whereby taped phone messages invite people to participate in a survey, then present them with loaded questions and spin that favours a given candidate.

When he started leaning back on the ropes [Ali's so-called 'rope-a-dope' tactics,  whereby Foreman was invited to pound away at him], we were afraid Ali would fall out of the ring.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

In 1957, the laws were altered to prevent more than two fielders standing behind square on the leg side; the intention was to prevent negative bowling tactics whereby off spinners and slow inswing bowlers aimed at the leg stump of batsmen with fielders concentrated on the leg side.

There was also no reference to the "Freeman tactic" - whereby officers would close the tunnel to the central pens when they became full.

Haloarchaea have adapted to survive in their saline environments by employing a tactic called "salting in" whereby they selectively uptake K + and Cl - ions to a concentration of greater than three molar.

Officers try to to contain public disorder with tactics such as kettling, whereby demonstrators are confined to a small area.

Perhaps the answer for sweeping changes and holding those judges, lawyers and other players who game the system accountable, whereby the tactics and activities they engage in meet the bar for extortion can be found in the Hobbs Act which may provide answers and guidance on the Federal Governments authority to get involved.

When dealing with bacteria that do not respond to treatment, the major tactic utilized is antibiotic stewardship, whereby the physician switches the patient to a new class of antibiotics with different underlying mechanisms of action, and thus mechanisms of resistance.

The current 'reactive' approach to security is based on some form of illogical 'retro thinking,' whereby we focus on protecting ourselves against the specific tactic of the previous terrorist, hoping that this will ensure our safety from the next terrorist attack.