Sentence examples for tactical gambit from inspiring English sources
While the SNP scaremongering may have looked like a last-minute tactical gambit, the Tories were confident that it played to their core message, prepared over a year ago, that only one party offered stability and security.
For the best part of a quarter century, Gordon Brown has had the political press corps either scratching its collective head, trying to divine his latest tactical gambit, or else making a gag at his expense.
Moving Ben Cohen to full-back against a side with Ireland's kicking ability was a bizarre tactical gambit and, despite the massive efforts of Lewis Moody, Martin Corry and Joe Worsley, there were only fleeting signs of instinctive decision-making and imagination to complement the home side's obvious forward power.
Without one, the party's strategists (usually canny about these sorts of tactical gambits) risk being caught like deer in the headlights.
If at the start there was something slightly awkward and un-José about this kind of fluid attacking gambit, the tactical equivalent of an ill-advised middle-age earring, this Diego-less team was impressively solid on a ground where they were overrun last season.
It is also impossible, in the white heat of parliamentary debate, to distinguish between strategic and tactical objectives: many Tories view Mr Miliband's civilising gambit as a sign of weakness, Labour having recently been hammered on the economy.
In this variation, Black makes no immediate effort to regain the gambit pawn, preferring to concentrate on active piece play and tactical tricks.
