Sentence examples for tactical silence from inspiring English sources

Obama's tactical silence on human rights issues in Russia and other repressive former Soviet republics, meanwhile, has infuriated human rights defenders.

Connaughton knew that it was one of Kaufman's duties to protect Biden from the consequences of the indignities that he doled out; usually, this meant adopting the tactical silence, feigned ignorance, or kindly evasion that the wife of a tyrannical father uses to mollify the children.

His support for a hiring hall for Latino laborers during the Farmingville debacle five years ago earned our respect, though his tactical silence on the issue in the current race has left us disappointed, particularly after Mr. Hennessey took an obnoxious anti-immigrant stance in his primary campaign against a hard-line xenophobe.

She can't abide tactical silences.

Tactical silences and apparently practical political alliances can create tension with the strategic campaigning necessary to turn around a kind of globalisation that is increasing inequality in almost every country, with consequences not only in the west but in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where decent growth rates belie entrenched unfairness.

Vincent del Bosque was out-thought by Antonio Conte, whose tactical masterplan silenced Sergio Busquets (by half-time La Roja's key player, the one who makes it all come together, had only made 16 passes) and ensured there was no service to Álvaro Morata, who was smothered by the Juventus defence he trained with week in, week out for two seasons.

The screenwriters' ear for the way therapeutic catchphrases and hazy insights recalled from college reading lists filter into everyday conversation is as unerring as Ms. Moore's offbeat comic timing or Ms. Bening's tactical use of silence.

But the government's silence is not just tactical.

There is a stolen kiss, a late-night swim, episodes of tactical insomnia and moments of awkward silence.

Some attribute this silence to spinelessness, others to tactical guile.

Silence, or a written statement followed by a tactical retreat from public life, would have sufficed.