Sentence examples for tactics common in from inspiring English sources

Such tactics, common in the early days of China's strict population control policies 25 years ago, are now illegal.

As tensions with Russia rose over the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, in early 2014, the U.S. was stung by a tactic common in Moscow politics: the weaponized leak.

It was at its urging, allegedly, that rallies this week protesting against the slow pace of reform were banned, a tactic common in the Moi years, as was the police's brutality against the demonstrators.Foreign donors, who had welcomed Mr Kibaki's inauguration with open wallets, are feeling uneasy.

Hardball legal tactics are common in courts, but a California lawyer went too far when he filed court papers on behalf of his client, a widow whose husband died in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, that were "nothing more than a vehicle for making personal slurs" against a judge, a federal appeals court in Manhattan said on Wednesday.

Thank you for championing a list of issues that I could heartily agree with, and for refusing to be distracted from your agenda by the usual mudslinging and other negative campaigning tactics so common in politics today.

Although male alternative reproductive tactics are common in species of fishes with male parental care [ 4], the presence of male parental care appears not to be significantly correlated with the evolution of alternative reproductive tactics [ 3].

That tactic became common in the 1990's as competition among the city, its suburbs and other places intensified.

This tactic is common in politics, where leaders often devise patronizing explanations for the otherwise unaccountable fact that people sometimes vote for their opponents.

This tactic is common in social engineering attacks.

When video of a counter-protest in favor of President Ben Ali was shown on television, for instance, activists could post their own footage of the same event that showed that very few people had actually attended -- the television cameras had been carefully placed to give the illusion of a large crowd (a tactic common at political rallies in the U.S., too).

A handful of recent targeted attacks shared the same Internet resources and tactics in common with those used in a spate of digital assaults against number of major U.S. defense contractors, said Maarten Van Horenbeeck, an incident handler with the SANS Internet Storm Center, Bethesda, Md.-based organization that tracks online security trends.